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Andrée Pagès is a jazz and blues singer whose soaring, rhythmically adventurous vocals and deep feeling have captivated New York- and Paris-area fans of jazz standards for many years. One reviewer summed her CD of standards, "Swings Both Ways," thusly:

"Pages lets the bitterness in Gershwin's 'My Man's Gone Now' come through with no stops, and her cover of Monk's 'Round Midnight' sums up the weariness of it all...But it's not just the music or the musicians; Swings Both Ways is about the experience, the concept, and Pagès straddles both worlds - the slick and the seedy, the bright and the dark..."

Andree Pages is also a composer and lyricist of modern jazz "standards," and the infectious melodies and sharply observed lyrics on her new CD, "Andree Pages: Original Jazz, Blues & One Lonesome Cowboy," have the feel of instant classics. (The lonesome cowboy refers to the lone C&W tune that strays from the jazz/blues herd...