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Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms
Source:
Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
In a 1995 Jazz Times review of a Sylvia Syms CD, I wrote:
Sylvia Syms had a vibrato like a telephone wire in a breeze. She sometimes slid around both sides of a note before she settled on it. She often added the syllable uh" to the end of a word ("ridin' on the moon-uh"). She could pounce on a consonant and ignore the vowel next door. Some of her power notes were pure brass and there were ...
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