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Carol O'Shaughnessy: Live at Scullers
by Dave Nathan
Inspired by a large, receptive crowd, Boston cabaret singer Carol O'Shaughnessy enthusiastically tackles a program of thirteen tunes selected to bring out the cabaret performers stock in trade which is to sing a story. Unlike jazz singers for whom lyrics are the medium rather than the message, for a cabaret singer they are the message. O'Shaughnessy has been dubbed Boston's “First Lady of Cabaret" and has been awarded that city's “Cabaret Entertainer of the Year Award". At this performance she ...
Continue ReadingJim Porcella: Bombay Jim and the Swinging Sapphires-Not Just Visiting
by Dave Nathan
P>Taking advantage of the renewed interest in the genre, this jazzy group romps through a program of some of the best of the big bands, mostly from the 1930's and 1940's, but which still get plenty of play to this day. The one exception is the kick off tune, “Bombay Jim and the Swinging Sapphire Blues," which serves as a preview of what's to follow. And what follows is some fine toe-tapping, finger snapping, let's get up and dance swing ...
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