Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers : Ms. B.C. [ purchase ]  When you’ve been a theme-oriented blog for as long as Star Maker Machine , it...

Betty Carter and the Ray Bryant Trio : Tell Him I Said Hello [ purchase ] My introduction to jazz singing was Joni Mitchell’s version o...

In the course of finding songs for this week’s theme, and reading other people’s posts, I have developed a set of rules for finding shorties...