Norman Mapp was one of the finest and least known male jazz vocalists of the 1960s, topped only by Johnny Hartman. Leading jazz players in the late 1950s and '60s were hip to Mapp. So were singers who recorded his songs. But virtually everyone else who listened to records drew a blank. Odds are you aren't familiar with him either or the one album he rec…
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