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Leslie Beukelman: Golden Daffodil

by Jerome Wilson
September 26, 2020

Leslie Beukelman is a singer from Chicago with an endearingly small and youthful lilt to her voice that sets the tone for the gentle, heartfelt feel of her music. On this release she performs a mixture of standards and original songs that shows how well she can handle both jazz and soft rock singing. There is a folkish fragility to Beukelman's original songs. On “Days Of Gray" and “Dear Alice," Beukelman's voice is small and whispery as it ...