"More than just a singer, Marlena Shaw is an alchemist, a sorceress, a sensualist."
"Throughout her distinguished career, Marlena Shaw has been an adventurer, exploring all facets of her musical heritage. While many singers subsume their various influences, opting for a more traditional, standard-oriented jazz view, Shaw, perhaps mindful of forbears like Dinah Washington, Ray Charles and Esther Phillips, among others, co-mingles them all. Jazz, blues, rhythm-and-blues, g… MORE