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Article: Interview

Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled

Read "Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...

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Article: Album Review

Etta Jones: Hollar

Read "Hollar" reviewed by David Rickert


Etta Jones is one of many singers who find it hard to escape the large shadow cast by songbirds like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, but still manage to create music filled with verve, grace, and sophistication. Hollar is an odd title for a record as subdued and mannered as this one is; Jones is much ...

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Easy Living

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Released: 2000
Track listing: Did I Remember?, Easy Living, After You

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Three Sundays In The Seventies

Label: Label M
Released: 2000
Track listing: Naima, Pinocchio, This Guy's In Love With You, Plexus, I'm Not So Sure, Shiny Stockings, Blow Top Blues, Don't Go To Strangers.

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Etta Jones: Easy Living

Read "Easy Living" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


Easy Living, Etta Jones’ wonderful new CD, is a celebration of a reunion and a partnership. The partnership is, of course, Ms. Jones’ longstanding collaboration with Houston Person. Mr. Person has played on and/or produced nearly all of Ms. Jones’ recordings since 1976. The reunion is with pianist Richard Wyands who in 1960 played for Ms. ...

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From the Heart

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1999

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Christmas Songs With The Ray Brown Trio

Label: Telarc
Released: 1999
Track listing: Away In A Manger; Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; Little Drummer Boy; The Christmas Song; Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer; Winter Wonderland; We Wish You A Merry Christmas; O Tannenbaum; Jingle Bells; White Christmas; The Christmas Rap;

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All The Way

Label: Private Music
Released: 1999

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Etta Jones: From the Heart

Read "From the Heart" reviewed by AAJ Staff


This is a sampler, not in the anthology sense but the chocolate box sense. There are bitter tastest, a creamy voice – and there’s enough sweetness for anybody. When Etta Jones hit top 40 with 1960’s “Don’t Go to Strangers’, Prestige gave her budgets most of their artists never saw – this shows their money was ...

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Sugar

Label: Private Music
Released: 1990


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