Jazz notes

The torchbearer

Once lost, singer Andy Bey finds himself - and a new audience

By Siddhartha Mitter

Globe Correspondent / December 21, 2007

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Of all the great expressive traditions in jazz, the male vocal is one that has had difficulty maintaining its position in the music's evolving marketplace. The shortage of prominent male singers is especially pronounced when it comes to African-American voices. For all the reinvigoration of jazz today, few if any inheritors of Nat King Cole or Johnny Hartman have emerged, ... (Full article: 901 words)