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Michelle Latimer: Sings & Plays

Read "Sings & Plays" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli


"If youth is a fault," wrote Goethe, “it is one that one gets rid of soon enough." On Michelle Latimer's debut as leader on her own Cool Note label, her youth is not exactly a fault, but it is a liability all the same, a quality that cries out to be either tamed or overcome. Her confidence and gusto know fewer limits than her emerging talent; much of the disc finds the Bay Area musician/singer/songwriter moving out of her present ...

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Michelle Latimer: Michelle Latimer Sings and Plays

Read "Michelle Latimer Sings and Plays" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


It seems odd that there aren't more horn-man/vocalists out there--or horn-woman/vocalists, in this case. Louis Armstrong broke the ground and set the standard; Chet Baker, in his cool way, kept the plow moving. But if you want to talk about the ladies tilling this fertile soil... well, I came up with a blank.On her debut, Michelle Latimer Sings and Plays, the San Francisco-based trumpeter/vocalist enters this hallowed territory with a cool panache, a distinctive and assured style of ...


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