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Lesley Byers and the Jazz Cats: A Slick Chick

Read "A Slick Chick" reviewed by Jack Bowers


From the name of the album and group I was expecting to hear from Lesley Byers and the Jazz Cats something along the lines of Keely Smith with Louis Prima and Sam Butera's Witnesses, but Byers and her quintet of capable Windy City sidemen offer a more straight-ahead brand of Jazz that's as well-crafted as it is pleasurable. Byers is a bright, amiable singer who must be even more charming to see than merely to hear. One can readily sense ...


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