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Kalil Wilson: Easy to Love

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 30, 2009

It is somewhat disconcerting how few new male vocalists inhabiting the jazz idiom practice their craft with the same degree of genius and virtuosity as saxophonists and other instrumentalists. It is a conundrum why so many new artists don't play the first instrument--the human voice. Some posit that poeta nascitur non fit? Is it true that vocal art is the one art that cannot really be taught, but only refined in those who “were born with it"? That appears so. ...