Article: Jazz lovers: for jazz stars Dena DeRose and Sheryl Bailey, being in love means finishing each other's sentences and sometimes even stealing a weekend at home.(music)

They're both top jazz artists, but their music is worlds apart. Singer-pianist Dena DeRose brings a modern-jazz hipness to the American standard repertoire. Guitarist Sheryl Bailey composes swinging, hard-bop instrumental and experiments with her instrument's tonal range.

"We hear things differently," says Bailey. "If we go out to a club, she'll make a comment about something I would never think about--"

DeRose interjects, "I'll be like, I don't know, "He's not really swinging.' "

"And I'll say, 'What? He's fucking great!' "

Bailey and DeRose have been happily arguing about this kind of thing since 1999, when they became one of the ...

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