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Gloria Cooper: Dedicated to You
by Marcia Hillman
This very pleasing offering came as a result of Gloria Cooper's editing of the Second Floor Music publication Sing Jazz. She was not familiar with many of the songs covered in the publication, prompting her to record a new disc featuring some of this material. A large number these songs started out as instrumentals, with lyrics added much later. Because of this, it seems quite appropriate that Cooper treats her voice as an instrument, rather than taking ...
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by Jack Bowers
I rather wish that Gloria Cooper didn’t play such nice, tasteful piano; that would make it easier to praise her singing as the highlight of this admirable debut album. Truth is, however, that it’s Cooper’s fingers and not her vocal chords that most often capture and hold one’s interest, even when used to serve the voice, which Cooper employs on all but one selection, her own bluesy “You Know What I Mean.” At the keyboard she displays excellent technique, a ...
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