Singer Vanessa Rubin and saxophonist Don Braden have been friends since the early 1980s. Nearly 30 years later they released their first CD together: Full Circle. This is a very soulful, blues-influenced session due in no small part guitarist Dave Stryker, organist Kyle Koehler and drummer Cecil Brooks III completing the ace band. Full Circle by Vanessa Rubin and Don Braden premieres this morning on 89.1 Jazz. Linda Yohn has music at nine streaming on wemu.org and on 89.1, WEMU.
Linda Yohn simply cannot remember a day in her life that was not filled with music. Her early life was full of changes as the daughter of a well-respected cancer research scientist who moved his family about, but one thing was constant: the love of music instilled by her mother. So, when it seemed life was too hard to bear, young Linda would listen to her radio, play her guitar, dance her heart out and sing at the top of her lungs. So, it isn’t so strange that “older” Linda still does all those things!