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Album Review
Byron Motley: Jazz & Cocktails
by George Harris
Jazz & Cocktails is great. With a vocal mixture combining the sass of Jackie Wilson, the jive of Louis Jordan, and the vulnerability (a chick magnet) of Smokey Robinson, Byron Motley displays creativity, ingenuity, and dexterity on a swinging and ultra-hip set of standards and dreamy ballads. On the latter, Motley is delicate and breathy with the lyrics, as on June Night" and I Wish I Knew."
He's also willing to take chances on well known favorites: on ...
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