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    BLINDFOLD TEST | DOW\BEAT December “Bh tuck & Patti “They Can't Take That Away From Mo" rom Love Warsvons, Windham Hil Jazz) Patt! Cathcart, Tuck Andress, gutar I dont know who this i. Hike the sound of guitar and voice together. She's a fine singer and he’ a wonderful guitarist. thought that sometimes, though, she was trying to make more of the song than there realy was. [ think the problem for the young singers, the sew crowd, ig that they need some new repertoire, ‘This song has been sung many, mary times, andit$ a nice song, But this is 1992 and there are other things to sing about. I think young singers today should strive to add somethingto the repertoire and not sing these old standards, which are great. but they have been done and done and done, She hada lovely sound, though. 3 stars = Helen Merrill low Weop For We (rem Cutan Or Or Ts Moma Aries) Mor toate: ger Katey, pao: Red eo. bas; ory Care Sram See Same thing. If it was an original song, it would be excellent . . . if it wasn't heard already. But the great singers have sung this ‘songand there’ nothing more you can really do toit. She's gota lovely sound, she sings in ‘une, but .. . what can you do with “Willow Weep For Me"? Besides, I wish the young ‘women would look for something else to sing other than songs about unrequitedlove, lovein spite oflove, andallof this miserable, masochistic expression. There are other things to sing about with a man and a woman. It not all tragedy, you know? We deserve some more material. 3 stars. = cassandra Wilson “oman On The Edge (om Jour Won JM Wison, vocals Kern ruc rl Bos; Mark. Notinson crus; David Glnoe gtr; od Villans keyboards; ary Thom, on 68; Graham Haynes tumpet, Isthat Cassandra? Shes got her own sound, but you can also hear how she comes out of Betty (Carter. Hikedt but I thought thatin the mix... there was too much bass there. It was disturbing to me the bass booming all the time so I didrit understand everything she said. Also, the singers, a lot of them nowadays, they dont pay as much attention to clarity when it comes tothe lyric as the old masterful singers did. You hear every word because its a story that youre telling, On this, I heard a phrase here or there, but I couldut follow the story that NAD a9 Ez ABBEY LINCOLN by Bill Milkowski ‘orn Anna Maria Wooldridge in 1930, she blossomed into Abbey Lincoln and began making her mark inthe jazz world in the late 1950s through her work with such gianis as Benny Carter, Cole- man Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Dor ham, and Max Roach, whom she mar fied ‘in 1962. She appeared opposite Sidney Poitier in 1964's Nothing But A Man and 1968's For Love Of ivy, but didnt act again until 1990s Mo’ Better Blues, Spike Lee's attempt at a “jazz film Throughout her career, Abbey has brought a compelling presence and intense soul to her music, while corvey- ing @ sense of thoughtiuiness, social relevance, and intelligence in her lyrics. Last year saw the release of You Gotta Pay The Band, her second Verve album and the tile of a documentary of her life which aired on PBS during Black History ‘well because there was so much music. And her voice doesnt get through the electric instruments that well. To me, acoustic music isreally real. But. . .toeachhis own. 4 stars for the original composition. <—Brickie Lee Jones ‘Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” rom Por Pon Warner Bros.) Jones, vocals; Charlie Haden, bass; Rebbon Ford, gultar Hahaaaht . . . Like her sound. I don't know who she is but she's gota style of her own, I like her. [like the way she reads the lyric. She doesnt sound like anybody that I know. She sings with feeling andan understanding of what sheS saying. She’ original and sincere, I believe that she's really hurting She sounds vulnerable. I liked that a lot. 5 stars . . . plus. But [stil feel the same way about it... some new material. [don't know ‘hy the singers are pouring over all this old stuff SS eetty Carter

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