Photo of jazz singer Carmen McCrae at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1980. Photo by Michael Wilderman, jazzvisionsphotos.com
“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread — without it, it's flat.”
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April 8, 1920 –
November 10, 1994
American jazz singer.One of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century.
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