Known for co-hosting the public radio program Words & Music and for her live tributes to Tin Pan Alley icon George Gershwin, Spider Saloff is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist with a clean, uncomplicated, straightforward approach. On ballads, Saloff can be a vulnerable, tender, and introspective torch singer; on up-tempo material, the Windy City resident can be fun and playfully swinging. Because Saloff has devoted entire concerts to the Gershwin songbook and obviously has an extensive knowledge of the classic Broadway theater music of the '20s, '30s and '40s, some have described ...