Troels Jensen & The Healers feat. Miriam Mandipira

Troels Jensen and The Healers feat. Miriam Mandipira: My Love

by Chris Mosey
September 28, 2017

After studying music in her native Zimbabwe, Miriam Mandipira moved from that unhappy country, first to South Africa, then 10 years ago to Denmark. Here she became a mainstay of the local blues scene. Her influences, she said, were Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith but she sounded more like Aretha Franklin and Randy Crawford and still does. On this album she gets together with veteran Danish bluesman Troels Jensen. He started out playing trad jazz on cornet ...