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Biography

Based in New York City much of her life, Jody Sandhaus is a tasteful jazz vocalist with cabaret and traditional pop influences. Sandhaus is not the type of singer who goes out of her way to be abstract, complicated or cerebral; her approach is quite accessible and straight-forward, and her influences have included Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Irene Kral, Maxine Sullivan and Anita O'Day (among others). Sandhaus tends to pay a lot of attention to the Tin Pan Alley songbook, but unlike some jazz vocalists, she doesn't limit herself to the most famous standards--if Sandhaus tackles Cole Porter or the Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein team on either her CDs or her live performances, she will get into both the standards and the worthwhile songs that others overlook. And if she turns her attention to the Duke Ellington songbook, she may look for a gem that hasn't been recorded all that often (such as "I Like the Sunrise," which she performed on her A Fine Spring Morning album).

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