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Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet: Fools For Yule
by Richard J Salvucci
Before you simply scroll past to say, Oh boy, another Christmas recording," stop. This one is different, hip and fun. If you remember the classic done by Manhattan Transfer years ago, which you may have well memorized by now, you are ready for another one. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," the set's opener, will not (thankfully) conjure up Les Brown. Fool For Yule" is entertaining, wry, and, in its way, a bit, arch. With yet ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
The Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet performs in the same stylistic arena of the Manhattan Transfer and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. There. It has been said; and now we have that out of the way. The UVJQ has been active for the past two decades under the direction of Ginny Carr. They are based in the Washington DC area and have two recordings to their credit before Hustlin' For A Gig. Inhabiting the same orbit as the Manhattan ...
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