To French-Beninese singer Mina Agossi, there’s nothing sacred about jazz standards.
She beatboxes on “Ain’t Misbehaving”, breaks into French in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and boils down Thelonious Monk’s classic “Well, You Needn’t ” to the point of reciting it.
And if that were not enough to scare away jazz purists, Agossi has done away with piano, guitar and a brass section, and sings with only drums and double bass for accompaniment.
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