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Eugenie Jones: Eugenie
by Richard J Salvucci
Eugenie Jones seems to be another one of those singers who did not start out as one but got there as soon as she could. Make no mistake, she ended up in the right profession, self-confessedly in the tradition of Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln. Jones writes as well, and several of her own songs, “Starlight Starbright," “Hold Back the Night," “It's OK," “Nothing Better" and “Say What You Will" round out a recording of a selection of classics by ...
Continue ReadingDavid Murray Quartet with Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart and Russell Carter: Francesca
by Mike Jurkovic
A jazz classicist since his heady and historic days founding The World Saxophone Quartet, David Murray takes to a studio just outside Zurich with a rhythm section of the next generation and emerges triumphant with the standout Francesca. With an average age of, give or take, thirty-six years between them, Murray, the veteran nearing seventy, brings the music and the fire to the young ones and “Francesca" waltzes into life with a bluesy cool all its own. Pianist ...
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Nothing Better
From: EugenieBy Russell Carter
