Name your lame duck artist........

Diana Krall the gateway drug to Ella. Hmmmm....very interesting concept there.

Since I have flogged pretty much all of the jazz lite vocalists, except for Norah, I will throw in a contemporary singer that I really like and take my lumps. Cassandra Wilson seems to pay homage to the great vocalists of the past, not that she is in their class, while still having her own style and voice. Some of her material has been variable, but at her best, she has a lot to recommend her. And yes, I still have no taste.

But back to our regularly scheduled post roasting lame ducks. Did Natalie Merchant take a wrong turn on the freeway and just keep driving into the ditch? Or what? She seems to have found Sting and Crow there along with Clapton.

OOPS forgot about All-American John BJ

Undestatement of the year -
Phil Lesh........."well maybe I'm not the greatest singer in the world"

Had weird experience yesterday. I decided to get off my property and drive to the mall. I picked up a sampler type CD called "The New Jazz Divas" with one song from each of the usuals (13 in all). I loved Diana Krall singing "Temptation" nice lazy track with chunky beats and, well sung with a bit of life to it, just when I expected to see zzzzzzzzz coming out of the speakers.
Life is full of surprises.

TT: That would be the Crown Bar. I was there too.