I only caught the tail end of a sold out Lethbridge Jazz Society tribute to Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles at the Tongue N Groove, April 1.
The Contemporary Jazz Works Orchestra backed the singers and Juran Greene, doing his best Ray Charles, played the beaming and affable host of the jazz party of the year.
The singers were all top notch and Greene ended the show with an excellent version of “Shake a Tailfeather.”
The band was crack— tight as could be and didn’t miss a note for the enraptured crowd crammed shoulder to shoulder, wall to wall like sardines in the T and G.
A few dancers threaded their way to the front of the stage to dance to the funky music.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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