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MARK TURNER is thrilled by the the British singer’s tribute to the late great Sarah Vaughan
STRONG SOCIAL CONSCIENCE: Zara McFarlane [Kaur Ilves/Flickr]

Zara Macfarlane
Sweet Whispers
(Eternal Source Of Light)

 

GIL SCOTT HERON once poked fun at po-faced purists with his release But Is That Jazz? Heron was one of that generation who changed popular understanding of jazz just as had Davis and Coltrane, Gillespie and Parker before them. In the late ’60s and ’70s Jazz bled into other forms of popular music and while arguably it’s more broadly appreciated today, in a variety of forms, there are still those who mournfully proclaim “jazz is dead.”

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