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Album Review

The Crissy Lee Jazz Orchestra: . . .with Body and Soul

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

The second album by drummer Crissy Lee’s UK–based Jazz Orchestra is encased in the equivalent of a plain brown wrapper (no liner notes, composer or arranger credits, biographical or other information, the solo order furnished in type so small that one needs a magnifying glass to read it) but good things sometimes do come in unassuming packages, and . . .with Body and Soul is far better than its mediocre covering denotes. True, there are some hints that the enterprise ...