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Yeah, hopefully she knows one! Yanow on All Music digs her: Sandy Graham is an excellent straight-ahead, bop, ballad, and blues singer who is based in Los Angeles. She has a very expressive and at times conversational style that is both soulful and swinging. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, she grew up surrounded by music. Graham sang in her Baptist church as a child and grew up loving jazz. She started out imitating and learning from the recordings of Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Carmen McRae. Graham sat in at jam sessions and at 19 was a professional singer for the first time, performing at the Sapphire Room in West Los Angeles. Her life since then has been wide-ranging and includes time spent working as a model and an actress. Among the highlights of her singing career are performing with Jimmy Rowles in 1973, recording with the Colorado Springs Air Force Band in 1975, performing on a fairly regularly basis with the Nat Pierce/Frank Capp Juggernaut since 1979, working with Bill Berry's L.A. Big Band and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, performing on several different occasions in Japan, touring Europe with the Duke Ellington All-Stars in the 1990s, and working with pianist Gerald Wiggins. Sandy Graham performs regularly in the Los Angeles area but thus far has surprisingly recorded only three CDs as a leader, one for the defunct Muse label and two more recent efforts (Comes Love and By Request) for Jazz Link.

Never heard of her and she's not on Apple music. However, some stuff on YT. This one's from Comes Love: Great voice IMO.

Listening to this now as well. Great party music. Would probably be a fun live show.

Good stuff NP:

Never heard of these guys but I'm not from Pittsburgh. Nice album.

And then Ryan Devlin's The Shape of Light These guys are playing live this weekend at the Lilypad in Cambridge MA for $10. If I was close I'd go.

Billy Joel, John Legend, Stevie Wonder...

I can't stand Marshall Arisman's covers, esp for jazz records.

New releases rom 2020 & 2021: Bro, Henrikson & Rossy - Uma Elmo Jimmy Dludlu - History in a Frame (Smooth jazz with South African flavor) Kenny Garrett - Sounds from the Ancestors Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep David Sanford Big Band - A Prayer For Lester Bowie Marc Johnson - Overpass Nubya Garcia - The Source LCSM - Earthbound Run Logan Run - For a Brief Moment We Could Smell the Flowers Nicole Glover - Strange Lands Jonathan Blake - Homeward Bound Charles McPherson - Jazz Dance Suites Sonny Rollins in Holland Mingus at Bremen '64 & '75 Earlier releases that I'm just now hearing and enjoying: Jaleel Shaw - Perspective Ayler Quintet - Berlin, Lorrach, Paris and Stockholm Revisited Hamiet Bluiett Sextet - Young Warrior, Old Warrior Thurman Green - Dance of the Night Creatures Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall '46 Sonny Fortune - From Now On Pharoah Sanders - Message from Home, Africa & Lord let Me Do No Wrong Billy Bang Quartet - Spirits Gathering Joe McPhee - Black is the Color Sun Ra Disco 3000 Complete

Great album WP: Heavy soul with jazz inflections... Then: First listen and it's simply incredible.

Big band album released just last month:

I'll say

Nice. Now I know where the cover design for U Roy's Dread In A Babylon found inspiration

I really dig The Source. I wouldn't call her the greatest living sax player or anything but I find her creative and expressive in an enjoyable way. However, there isn't much that separates that style of record from "smooth jazz" which I think some would find negative. The production isn't as slick, there's no constant ambient keyboard in the background, and the melodies aren't as repetitive, but it's heavy groove playing within a type of soundscape.

A really good solo bass album:

Good stuff!

Per discogs no credits before 2020 but she was probably out there somewhere. She remixed a Nubia Garcia track this year too. Good scene going there right now

yep, posted it a few pages back actually - and I think you commented as she works in a local shop sometimes...? I dug that album. Totally new artist for me.

Like a mash up of late Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers. And now, one I slept on from 2020: Album is Earthbound from LCSM.

Carlos Henriquez's The South Bronx Story and then: Emma-Jean Thackray's Yellow

Good, good stuff.