Vinyl Story

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She left us in '90, her biographers tell us. We don't believe a word of it, and the vivid memory evoked by this album, *Swingin' Easy*, brings her insolently to life, in the sunshine of her thirties, with an incredibly rich and warm timbre, breathtaking technical mastery, perfect diction, and that je ne sais quoi that makes the heart and body vibrate. At an age when she dared everything, she was the only one who knew how to combine incomparable technique with supreme sensitivity: mastered breath control, subtle intonation modulation, embodiment of emotions – never has a voice so perfectly materialized the spirit of words. A musician among legendary musicians – pianists Jimmy Jones and John Malachi, drummer Roy Haynes, bassists Richard Davis and and Joe Benjamin – she delivers an immortal album, one that is forever among the "essentials" of jazz history.