Jazz vocals
On “To Oscar With Love,” the jazz vocalist brings warmth, wit, and a fresh perspective to twelve songs by an underappreciated master storyteller.
Janis Siegel’s first project since the Manhattan Transfer’s 2023 dissolution honors the lyric-driven jazz practice shaped by Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
Biographer Judith Tick is reverent about the singer without falling into hagiography: with honest scrutiny, she asserts the enduring value of Ella Fitzgerald’s achievement for generations to come.
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