Marion Montgomery, who has died aged 67, was an accomplished jazz singer with an intimate, beguiling voice which could be urbane and sophisticated, but which carried traces of her roots in the ...

CLEANTH BROOKS ONCE DESCRIBED Marion Montgomery as “one of the most acute and profound critics of present-day American culture.” This volume contains 26 essays in testimony to the truth of that ...

The jazz instrumentalist who does more with less has long been popular with aficionados, though the same has not been true of jazz singers, who often seem obliged to wear the music's virtuosity on ...

American-born jazz warbler Marion Montgomery, who frequented British television and was known for her smooth, relaxed, versatile and intimate singing voice, died Monday July 22 at her home in Bray, ...