YOU CAN SAY what you want about other jazz artists. But the truth, the absolute truth, is there is nobody like Sheila Jordan.
At age 79 (and a half, she meticulously observes), she can still hold a 500-plus audience in pin-drop thrall as she and bassist Cameron Brown did for 90 magical minutes Saturday night in the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Halifax.
It was the first of three concerts on the last night of the 2008 Atlantic Jazz Festival, which began July 11. The other two, Tonic and Afro Musica, closed it all off in the mainstage tent on Spring Garden Road.
Jordan's touch is as delicate as the perfume from the trademark red carnation she wears over her pageboy haircut at left-ear level. Though she can talk tough if she needs to, she hasn't had an easy life. She projects a complete spectrum of 21st-century femininity. She's a nurturing woman with a sweet voice and a girlish laugh, a liberated woman with the manners of a lady.
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At age 79 (and a half, she meticulously observes), she can still hold a 500-plus audience in pin-drop thrall as she and bassist Cameron Brown did for 90 magical minutes Saturday night in the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Halifax.
It was the first of three concerts on the last night of the 2008 Atlantic Jazz Festival, which began July 11. The other two, Tonic and Afro Musica, closed it all off in the mainstage tent on Spring Garden Road.
Jordan's touch is as delicate as the perfume from the trademark red carnation she wears over her pageboy haircut at left-ear level. Though she can talk tough if she needs to, she hasn't had an easy life. She projects a complete spectrum of 21st-century femininity. She's a nurturing woman with a sweet voice and a girlish laugh, a liberated woman with the manners of a lady.
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