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Queen Latifah puts a spell on listeners with soaring jazz vocals.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Tom Moon
Before she begins to sing Joe Zawinul's underappreciated soul-jazz plea "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," one of several surprises on "The Dana Owens Album" (Tommy Boy/Universal, 3.5 stars), Queen Latifah delivers a little speech about the importance of poise.
"You gotta stay sexy through the adversity," the Queen counsels, as if she's refined her sermon on nightclub stages for decades. "Never let them see you sweat."
Then, without missing a beat, the multitalented entertainer shows what she means, by reeling off verse after merciless verse in a voice that's severe but never out of control, full of old-school fire yet hardly strident.
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