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Svetlana and the Delancey Five: Night at the Speakeasy

Read "Night at the Speakeasy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The name Svetlana and the Delancey Five sounds like a Cold War cadre of marauding spies. Moscow-native Svetlana Shmulyian is the real article and brings a certain “other-worldness" to a jazz repertoire existing somewhere between 1920 and the Rapture. The band's Night at the Speakeasy is their debut for the West Coast OA2 Record label. With that title, it is just too easy to assume that this recording is simply an expose of the older forms of jazz typically committed ...


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