Linda Lawson

Introducing Linda Lawson

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
February 11, 2013

Television split a lot of jazz personalities in the 1950s. Dozens of jazz musicians arranged and played in the orchestras of live TV shows in New York and Los Angeles. Some singers who could have been jazz or pop recording artist wound up being actors. One of those was Linda Lawson. Lawson made only two known album recordings. The first was for Verve in September 1957, on an LP that featured other vocalists called Songs for Your Boyfriend, arranged by ...
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