My obsession with female singers who recorded in the late 1950s and early '60s continues. Today's focus is Jacy Parker, a superb pianist and singer who all but disappeared after 1974. Astonishingly, she recorded only one album—Spotlight on Jacy Parker—for Verve in 1961. What makes this album remarkable is that Parker accompanied herself on piano, backed…
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