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On their LiveStream of June 26, 2020, guitarist Oscar Peñas and bassist Manel Fortia play exquisite and lightly swinging duets that are a little reminiscent of Jim Hall and Ron Carter.

Bassist Manel Fortia is from Catalan and based in both Barcelona and New York.

Fortia has worked with such notables as Dave Liebman, Chris Cheek, Bill McHenry, Eliot Zigmund, Ari Hoenig, Arturo O’Farrill, Chano Dominguez, and many others in addition to leading his own projects.

Oscar Peñas, who was born in Barcelona, has blended together jazz, classical and folk music from several cultures in his playing.

He has led four albums thus far, working with Esperanza Spalding, Paquito D’Rivera and Ron Carter.

Their LiveStream has the guitar-bass duo performing straight ahead jazz including “Alone Together,” an original that uses the chord changes of “I Got Rhythm,” an attractive ballad, “All The Things You Are,” “Get Out Of Town,” and the medium-tempo blues “Walkin’.”

The subtle interplay between Manel Fortia and Oscar Peñas results in a relaxed yet swinging set of boppish jazz.

-Scott Yanow

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Akua Allrich

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Akua Allrich is a powerful vocalist whose singing falls between jazz and r&b.

She came from a musical family, studied at Howard University, and has led three albums since 2010 including the recent Soul Singer.

Accompanied by a fine pianist-keyboardist, Akua Allrich performs originals and the Nina Simone-associated “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “Four Women” on her LiveStream from June 26, 2020, singing in a passionate style a little reminiscent of Simone and Abbey Lincoln but in her own voice.

-Scott Yanow

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Adi Meyerson

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Adi Meyerson was born in San Francisco but grew up in Jerusalem.

She moved to New York in 2012, studying at the New School where she graduated in 2014.

The bassist has worked with many top musicians in NY including Joel Frahm, Joe Magnarelli, Steve Nelson, and Charli Persip, recording with pianist-singer Champian Fulton, and heading her own group since 2016; she led her first album in 2017, Where We Stand.

On her LiveStream from June 26, 2020, Adi Meyerson plays a thoughtful five-minute unaccompanied solo (“For All The Ones I Love But Can’t Protect”) that at times hints at Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman.”

Next, her quartet’s recording of “Caged Bird” is matched with colorful visuals from 1967 by a Japanese artist; the alto-saxophonist is strong and Meyerson contributes a vocal along with her bass playing.

The talented bassist’s LiveStream concludes as it began, unaccompanied as she performs her “I Want To Sing My Heart Out In Praise Of Life.”

-Scott Yanow

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Valerie Capers

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An excellent straight ahead jazz pianist who made too few recordings in her career (only leading five albums to date), Valerie Capers studied classical music (learning to read Braille after she lost her sight when she was six), studied at Juilliard, and gravitated to jazz by 1960.

Inspired by her brother, saxophonist Bobby Capers, she formed her own trio, made her first album in 1966 and became an important educator.

This LiveStream from June 26, 2020 teams her with her longtime bassist John Robinson III., performing a relaxed version of Duke Ellington’s “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” a swinging rendition of Steven Sondheim’s “Anyone Can Whistle,” Horace Silver’s “Doodlin’,” and Jobim’s “One Note Samba.”

The playing is excellent, swings, and serves as a fine introduction to Valerie Capers.

-Scott Yanow

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