Jazz Articles about Jeannette Lindstrom

Jeannette Lindstrom: In The Middle Of This Riddle

by Mark Sabbatini
February 10, 2006

There's good poetry about flowers and there's “roses are red, violets are blue." But if one isn't into floral fawning, even the quality stuff sounds saccharine. A similar case exists with vocalist Jeannette Lindstrom's In The Middle Of This Riddle, which in a better world would be emitting from speakers at megachain bookstores instead of Norah Jones and her folk-jazz imitators. Lindstrom's lyrics and instrumental arrangements go beyond mass market safety by mixing various jazz forms with underpinnings of neo(fusion), ...