Marlena Shaw

[youtube]tmk30mvVz3Y[/youtube] Marlena Shaw was a youngster of 10 when her jazz trumpeter uncle Jimmy Burgess brought her onstage at the Apollo. The New Rochelle, New York native started singing jazz professionally in the ’60s at clubs around the state. Her 1966 recording of “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” for Chess records leadContinue Reading