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The Vocal Jazz Collective: Redefinition

by Dan McClenaghan
August 9, 2010

Jeff Baker, one of the best male jazz vocalists around today, is also the vocal director at ArtsWest School for Performing Arts in Eagle, Idaho. Working with high school age performers must be a gas, because Baker has produced a very engaging vocal jazz outing, featuring his students backed by an Origin Records all-star band, with pianist Justin Nielsen sitting in the piano/arranger's chair.Redefinition takes a batch of familiar jazz tunes by the likes of George Gershwin, Henry ...