Date: 25/04/2026 21:10:02
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 2384629
Subject: re: What music are you listening to ?
Barbara Dane.
No link, because I am listening to one of those old-fashioned CD things.
But here is what TATE has to say:
Jazz critic Leonard Feather described Dane as “Bessie Smith in stereo” in the late 1950s. Time wrote of Dane: “The voice is pure, rich … rare as a 20-carat diamond” and quoted Louis Armstrong’s exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: “Did you get that chick? She’s a gasser!” On the occasion of her 85th birthday, The Boston Globe music critic James Reed called her “one of the true unsung heroes of American music.”