submitted on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 06:05 in Jazz Group by Mike_Longo 
"How can you separate the dancer from the dance?" When the poet W.B. Yeats asked this paradoxical, rhetorical question to express the organic, indivisible relation between the artist and his or her creative work, he couldn't have had so-called "contemporary," or "smooth," jazz in mind. There's no shortage of superior musicians paying the rent by playing music with which they sense little personal connection. And while most cities seem to have at least one major radio station devoted to the sub-genre, the music, however competently played, is usually sufficiently bland and faceless to make a Monk fan switch to a C&W station for relief. But in the case of vocalist Toscha Comeaux's This Could Be Love, you'd best not touch that dial too quickly...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Samuel Chell
