vocal jazz
Singer Caroll Vanwelden’s “Shakespeare Revisited” brings a flexible voice and adventurous textures to the sonnets, but its melodies and production too often overwhelm the poetry.
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.
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