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Mercedes Hall June 10th at Cornelia Street Cafe

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Mercedes Hall
with her Trio:
Glafkos Kontemeniotis - piano
Frank Wagner - bass
Kazi McCoy - drums

at Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St
Saturday June 10th
9 & 10:30pm shows
212-989-9319
$15 Cover & $6 minimum
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/

“Sizzling Jazz - Sensuous Blues"

Variety's Richard Gold wrote, “Leonard Feather, renowned jazz critic and author, doesn't flip for fakery or synthetic soul; Mercedes Hall is the real thing," and went to quote Feather's review: “... her sound quality, phrasing and feeling are more likely to conjure up memories of Dinah Washington or Aretha Franklin ... There is nothing simulated or contrived about the soulful conviction and intensity she brings to a set of contemporary songs." “Mercedes Hall's most recent album is Somewhere In The Night, released a couple of years ago. It's a marvelously melodic collection of steamy jazz love songs, eight of which were written by Hall. One notable cut is 'Walk On By,' and Hall's sultry treatment of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard is a singular achievement. ..It's obvious that the comparisons to such jazz and blues stars as Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin, which Hall has earned, are well founded"--Jay Miller, Patriot Ledger, August 2005

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