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ALBUM: Sweet 'N Hot

ARTIST: Maree Montgomery

DATE: 21 November, 2021

Review by SHIRLEY BROUN

AUSTRALIA's `First Lady of Swing', Maree Montgomery's album `Sweet 'N Hot' has made a triumphant return to the airwaves, and I couldn't wait to secure a copy and relive the inspirational jazz recordings that have made her such a well-admired jazz favourite over the past 40 years.… Members read the rest!

Affectionately known as Australia's `First Lady of Swing', Maree Montgomery and her inspirational jazz recordings are being reintroduced to a new audience after her album Sweet'n Hot, recorded in 1992 was recently featured in a one hour special on Radio Swinging Hamburg Jazz Radio.

In an interview with On With the Show's Shirley Broun, Maree said she was absolutely `delighted' to receive the airplay in Germany last month.… Members read the rest!

SAD FAREWELL FOR A REAL TROUPER

By Shirley Broun

Widely considered the doyen of Australia's jazz singers, the death of Edwin Duff in July, 2012 marks the end of a wonderful career in showbusiness.

Edwin Duff was aged 84 and living in a nursing home in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse.

I first met this inspirational and smooth-voiced jazz singer at the South Pacific International Song Contest on the Queensland Gold Coast in 1996.

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