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Kate McGarry with special guest Kurt Elling, “Girl Talk” (Palmetto). The
greatest thing about this disc is that it doesn’t carry an ounce more
ideological freight than McGarry’s singing is strong enough to handle. It’s
delicious. But it’s also making a point in her professed “starry-eyed
admiration and gratitude for our strong lineage of visionary jazz women”
which, she says, fueled the disc. She’s talking about such women as “Sarah
Vaughan, Betty Carter, Anita O’Day, Nina Simone, Ellis Regina, Sheila Jordan,
Irene Kral and Abbey Lincoln.” In her college days she listened “over and over
to the albums of these women . . . In addition to mastery of swing, harmony,
improvisation and storytelling, I heard in each of their unique voices
powerful ways of navigating the world as women that were completely new to me.
These icons were cocreators of the great art of jazz singing at a time when
women’s voices and dreams were still so easily silenced and devalued.” And if
McGarry’s singing weren’t absolutely equal to it on such standards as “We Kiss
in a Shadow,” “The Man I Love,” and yes, “I Know That You Know” and “It’s a
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What are the best jazz standards that came from broadway musicals?

I know there's alot - what are some of the best jazz standards that require alot of character to be performed well and have that real broadway sound about them. Thanks.

'All that Jazz' & 'Razzle Dazzle ' are both from Chicago

There has been tons of remakes of them and I'm pretty sure most people have heard of those songs.

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