YolanDa Brown: April Showers, May Flowers - review

(Black Grape)YolanDa BrownApril Showers, May FlowersBLACK GRAPE?????When the Barking-born saxophonist YolanDa Brown appeared as a support artist for visiting US soul-sax star David Sanborn at the Barbican in 2009, she had won the Mobo best jazz act award for the second successive year. Brown's performance then was a heartening episode - her sound was wide and warm, and she had a lot more spontaneous originality than pop-jazz instrumentalists usually exhibit. This largely self-penned album veers ...

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