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“Jazz has no frontiers. You can be very free.” That’s the message that was imparted to vocalist Youn Sun Nah by her teachers when she was struggling to find herself as a twentysomething jazz student in Paris in the 1990s. “I really wanted to sing like Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan, but it was impossible so I almost gave up,” she confesses. Fortunately that piece of encouragement—a verbal means to artistic

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