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Les Double Six: Les Double Six
by Dave Hughes
Quick: name some of the most innovative, excellent vocal ensembles in jazz over the last half century. Your list would probably include such notable ensembles as Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, Singers Unlimited, Manhattan Transfer, and New York Voices. Well, here's another group that belongs in that top echelon. At the same time Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross was blowing U.S. audiences away with their close-harmony vocalese interpretations of jazz classics, this group at twice the size (two women, four men) was ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I was conceived in Paris and born in New York. My artist parents were living in France from 1952 to 1956 when my mother decided they should return to the States so I could be delivered in New York. So they rushed back on the S.S. United States and here I am. The point of all this is to tell you why I have such an affinity for French jazz. Last week I posted about Blossom Dearie in Paris. Today, ...
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