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Album Review
Kama Ruby: Rock Dreams in Jazz
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Kama Ruby's sophomore effort Rock Dreams in Jazz is closeted in the respect that it contains only two rock songs among some sturdy jazz standards. The Eagles' Hotel California" and Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon/Sister of the Moon" represent the promise of a set of new" standards among the old. As provocative as they are, these newer songs do not come close to the transformation Ruby brings to Embraceable You" and Nature Boy." This is not your parent's ...
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