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Shane Ashley: My Emotions
by Todd S. Jenkins
Rising star Shane Ashley embodies all that is good and fine about contemporary vocal jazz: a profoundly personal sense of deep soul, an gift for creating truly ear-catching melodies and harmonies, and a tasteful avoidance of the cliches that so often drag the genre down into cheesiness. From stem to stern, My Emotions is a warm, touching, excellent document of a woman’s life and loves.
All the songs here were either composed by Ashley or co-composed with multi-instrumentalist Peter Stanley. ...
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