It was the music she heard each week when her mother was ironing: Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Abbey Lincoln, Miles Davis and more. They seeped into Dee Alexander’s pre-school consciousness and heart and stayed there. So years later, when she took to singing, perhaps it was inevitable…
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Ralph Towner has just been on holiday. To the guitarist this is rather more noteworthy than helping redefine improvised music over the last 45 years by blending jazz, classical and South American elements. “I’m just learning from my wife how to take a vacation without going mad,” the American says…