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The Straight Ahead Jazz Combo
Album Review
The Straight Ahead Jazz Combo: Book Six!
by Jack Bowers
The Straight Ahead Jazz Combo is comprised of six members of the Redding, California-based Straight Ahead Big Band, including its leader, saxophonist Steve Fischer, and vocalist, Nancy Fischer. Unlike other groups for whom the singer serves as a change of pace or pleasant distraction, the Straight Ahead Combo is actually enhanced when Nancy Fischer commands the spotlight, as she does on half of the album's fourteen selections..
Whatever the framework, this is the sort of group one would expect to ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
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