Unlike many singers of her generation, Helen Merrill was never big on tabloid drama. No tell-all books by people who knew her. No hurled drinks. And no airport tantrums, tawdry busts or overdoses. Just a lifelong commitment to jazz, singing and musicians.
But Helen's love of jazz faced strong cultural headwinds in the 1970s. Acoustic jazz and the jazz v…
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