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Diane Hubka: You Inspire Me

Read "You Inspire Me" reviewed by Roger Crane

by Roger Crane
May 7, 2002

Listening to Diane Hubka is a delight. Somehow it is appropriate and nice that Diane Hubka sounds just the way she looks, namely, cool, understated and very pretty. But there is much more to singing than a lovely voice and Hubka can do it all. She is a master of time and she can employ melody modification with the best jazz singers. She can also scat convincingly, but it is her burnished sound that captures the listener; it is a ...

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Diane Hubka: You Inspire Me

Read "You Inspire Me" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2002

Working with a rotating set of musicians seems to be in vogue in recent years. Ray Brown has his Some of My Best Friends Are...series, Pat Martino a couple of years back did a disc with several visiting guitar compatriots. Even Frank Sinatra toward the end of his career cut albums which featured a number of different singers. Now comes songbird Diane Hubka, with an album which has her working with what are billed as “seven of the world's greatest ...