The Oster Welker Jazz Alliance

The Oster Welker Jazz Alliance: Shining Hour

by Suzanne Lorge
May 11, 2010

San-Francisco-based Jeff Oster has one of those happy-sounding voices that make you feel happy, too. Even a depressing kind of song like “Sophisticated Lady" leaves the impression that, after all of that “smoking-drinking-never-thinking-of-tomorrow" stuff, everything will turn out okay. But it isn't until Oster scats that you really submit to his affable sound and just want to be BJFF (best jazz friends forever). Oster is no newcomer to vocal jazz, but he's not yet received the kind ...