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Teresa Manzella

Torch Swingin'

By Teresa Manzella

Label: Manzella Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to#; Out or Nowhere*; I'll Remember April#; My Babe*; Peel Me a Grape#; Lullaby of Birdland*; Autumn Serenade*; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm#; Why Don't You Do Right?*; Sassy's Blues#; Azure*

Teresa Manzella: Torch Swingin'

by Dave Nathan
March 1, 2001

The dictionary defines a “torch song" as “a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments a lost love." What the definition fails to recognize is that an important element of a torch song is that it is virtually always sung by a woman. The torch song is the jazz counterpart to country music ...