issue 01
december 2020
Love
Jazz “…Lady V.O. told me, “Hey, let’s call the band, Love
Jazz! We won’t have any competition because no-
body is trying to out love
each other!” I was done, I mean, I WAS DONE!
(laughing) Well, now we’re known as Love Jazz”
—Tracy Neely & Lady V.O.
Everybody keeps telling us that they need Love Jazz right now! I’ve had three different sets of people calling and saying, ‘Hey, you need to be streaming,’ or, ‘We need Love Jazz because the world is in tragedy!’ I was saying to myself, ‘What does Love Jazz have to do with it?’ Then someone else called and said, ‘We need Love Jazz! We need your music! We need your love! We need you now!’ I said to Tracy, “I don't know what's going on, but everybody's going off there wanting us to return!”
“People have been bowing to us, giving us gifts, money and all kinds of things. We don’t understand it, but we keep doing what we do because we love what we do! To be honest, we love each other!” Who is ‘Love Jazz’ and what is all the hype? Well, Ambi’ance Uncut knows exactly who they are. They are Tracy Neely and Lady V.O. (the Black Puerto Rican as she proudly tells everyone) They are a two-person band with Lady V.O. on the congas, bongos and percussion and Tracy on the guitar. Spreading their message
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