Dorothy Donegan Live at the 1991 Floating Jazz Festival.

From: National Review | Date: May 24, 1993| Author: De Toledano, Ralph | Copyright information

For many years, Dorothy Donegan was the Embers, that Manhattan midtown bistro and jazz parlor. Few of her records moved from LP to CD. But now Chiaroscuro, a record company that devotes itself to producing the best in jazz, has issued Dorothy Donegan Live at the 1991 Floating Jazz Festival. (As a dividend, a few minutes of Dizzie Gillespie is thrown in.) She roams the field of jazz p...

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