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For some listeners, the name Man Mitchell evokes contempt — because the singer whose pop-styled addresses of “Singin’ the Blues” and “Knee Deep within the Blues” slice the legs out from under Marty Robbins’ country-styled original renditions. To others, Mitchell evokes the final amount of America’s innocence, the middle-’50s, when …

Joe Williams was the last great big-band singer, a easy baritone who graced the rejuvenated Count number Basie Orchestra through the 1950s and captivated viewers well in to the ’90s. Given birth to in Georgia, he relocated to Chicago along with his grandmother at age three. Reunited along with his …