“Courage is a matter of the heart, a person’s core; that’s where the word ‘courage’ comes from: coeur means heart in French.” (excerpt from: Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be)

Jazz vocalist Esther Kaiser fully agrees with this assessment and embraces it in her new program Songs of Courage (to be released 8/31/2018 on GLM). Jazz as a musical style has always been courageous, bold, and in no way indifferent – and it has always had a sociopolitical stance.

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