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Gina Saputo’s first taste of jazz was at 12 years old, thanks to a record from her dad. The free-form music was a world away from the structured choir works she usually sang.
Three years later, she was performing in downtown Eugene jazz clubs.
Technically too young to be in the clubs, she was old enough to know she was in love with the genre. Saputo, now 44 years old and a professional jazz singer, credits the Eugene-Springfield region with her early opportunities to perform, including as a youth choral student in the Oregon Bach Festival…