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Janiece Jaffe: It Takes Two / Heart's Desire

Read "It Takes Two / Heart's Desire" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2003

These two CDs by bright-eyed, Indiana-based songstress Janiece Jaffe were hand-delivered to me by the artist herself during a between-sessions break at the 31st conference of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) last January in Toronto. The earlier of the two, It Takes Two, dating from 1996, pairs Jaffe with bassist Tom Hildreth (eight tracks) or guitarist Marcos Cavalcante (six). Heart’s Desire, recorded in 2001-02, finds her in the company of pianist Simon Rowe, bassist John Huber and drummer ...

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Janiece Jaffe: It Takes Two

by Dave Nathan
October 1, 2000

For her second album as a leader, Indiana denizen Janiece Jaffe is accompanied by just guitar and bass, each separately. Guitarist Marcos Cavalcante is on the first six cuts, while bassist Tom Hildreth holds fort on the rest. Jaffe is in good company with this approach. Sheila Jordan recorded with just bass players Arild Andersen and Harvie Swartz behind her. More recently, Chicago songstress Jackie Allen has recorded an excellent voice/bass duet album with bassist Hans Sturm. On the guitar/voice ...