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From the Ivory
Coast to Spain and
from Morocco to France, Laika's hybrid origins took her
one day to Jazz, the most hybrid of musics. Claude Bolling
did well in choosing this petite woman to be the voice of
his great orchestra (with the male singer Jeffery Smith),
during more than six years. It was quite something
to hear her warm and precise voice, from murmur to
brilliance, dominate the brass of the big band. One also has got to hear her sing with her Quintet to appreciate all the subtleties of her
delivery in a repertoire that is anything but easy. You have the chance to do
so today.
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