Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD

There's an article on her in the new issue of The Wire.

I am liking some of Jose James' new album Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday that features Jason Moran on piano, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Eric Harland, and is produced by David Was. Some of it is too measured and stiff, but other cuts work

i saw a hugely enjoyable outdoor concert by cyrille aimee a couple of weeks ago. brought the house down with her scatting. really into rhythm. the guitars were hot too.

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/first-listen-cecile-mclorin-salvant-for-one-to-love/

Jose James new one is growing on me (plus his older stuff). Still need to listen to new Mclorin Salvant, and track down and try that Karin Krog anthology

Also want to hear the new Lizz Wright, although it might not quite be "jazz." She's working with Joni's colleague-- from the press release Without a doubt, Wright certainly made it happen with Freedom & Surrender, her sexiest, most sensual album yet. She wrote ten of the disc's 15 songs, six with Klein and Batteau. The three penned "The New Game" - the disc's original working title - a rollicking, country-blues ditty with poetic lyrics and verses. The album as a whole touches upon fresher emotional terrain, especially the ethereal, acoustic guitar and Hammond organ-powered "Somewhere Down the Mystic," the beautiful lament "Here and Now," (which was inspired in part by the passing of Maya Angelou), the salty and spiteful "You" and the tender R&B ballad "Blessed the Brave."

Written by Wright, Klein and celebrated songwriter J.D. Souther, "Right Where You Are" is a mesmerizing love slow jam featuring Wright in an amorous duet with Gregory Porter, while "Real Life Painting," written by Wright and Maia Sharp, is a bucolic evocation about dwelling in the momentary carnal bliss of a love affair.

Nina Simone and Anita O'Day

different styles but I love at least 90% of what I've heard.

x-post-- the new Lizz Wright is often kind of a mournful adult r'n'b/neo-soul thing w/ a tinge of Toshi Reagon and also Toshi's Mom's group Sweet Honey in the Rock

Big tribute to Mark Murphy at St. Peter's tomorrow evening for what would have been his 84th birthday, featuring a host of other singers . They are talking about it WBGO right now.

Did ya go?

Happening in an hour or two. Don't know if I would be able to get in.

You gotta hit the lottery and retire and attend all of these events

Ha dontiknowit

Lots of fun photos from that tribute on FB.

a friend of mine went, reported there were nice singing tributes by sheila jordan, kurt elling & jay clayton among others

FB page is called Mark Murphy -Jazz Daddy.

RIP Ernestine Anderson. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/jazz-great-ernestine-anderson-dies/

I'm finding the new Gregory Porter album pretty nice

ctrl-f Terry Callier no matches :(

a little on this thread

terry callier: what do you think of him?

x-post--- Porter has that jazzier Bill Withers thing going nicely

Really enjoying Porter's latest Take Me to the Alley plus his prior one Liquid Spirit,

I hear some Donny Hathaway as well in his voice

Day Dream is a top jam, so is most of the album. Will be checking out some more Porter.

Gregory Porter is at the Howard Theatre in W. DC tonight Monday

Gregory Porter was pretty good at that sold-out almost hour and a half Howard Theatre gig. Didn't catch the names of the bandmembers--piano, bassist (acoustic mostly but electric on a few) and drums. He covered the Temps "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," and did a bit of Sly Stone "Thank You", a number of songs from the new one and various older cuts. He's got a warm Bill Withers meets Donny Hathaway thing going and I like it, plus a bit of jazz scat and swing.

The Jazz Times and Downbeat writers I was talking to at the Jazz Singers exhibit at the Library of Congress, like Porter but love Cecile Mclorin Salvant

Turns out the First Lady was there with gal pals at the Gregory Porter show I saw.

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https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jazz-singers/

the impression I got from Cecile Mclorin Salvant's last album was that she has a wonderful voice + bluesy mannerisms, but she is too much of a stylist and doesn't put enough of herself into the songs.

Still going through Gregory Porter's catalog, will get to Salvant soon

Camila Meza adds some nice vox to the latest Ryan Keberle & Catharsis album. Each song on the album is a tribute to a different South American composer and it is all very nice.

Interesting review of her Traces effort here, will check her singing and guitar playing out:

http://www.popmatters.com/review/camila-meza-traces/

Traces is her third outing as a leader but her first in New York. The trio behind her (Shai Maestro on keys, Matt Penman on bass, and Kendrick Scott’s drums) is fleet and fantastic, and she supplements it with some harmony vocal from Sachal Vasandani, as well as percussion and cello. But at its core, this is a quartet record that puts Meza out front as a singer, a songwriter, and a guitarist — with both strong and appealing ideas in each role.

...That is to say, Meza is not like the talented but oh-so-throwback-sounding Cecile McLorin Savant, whose updating of Sarah Vaughan is big at Jazz at Lincoln Center but sounds unaffected by the last 50 years of jazz singing. Her instrument, however, is less affected than that of Gretchen Parlato, less soul-driven than Somi, and less avant-pop than Cassandra Wilson. Meza manages to suggest her connection to Ella and Joni Mitchell at the same time while being tied to singing from other cultures too. The current singer she reminds me of most may be Luciana Souza, from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

All the players on that Catharsis record are super nice people in addition to being great musicians. Still haven't got around to listening to it myself.

I have just been listening to the velvet huskiness of Pauline Jean (a NYC based singer with Haitian roots) on her Nwayo album, top stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6ilK9lwHA

Annie Ross is turning 86 tomorrow. Here is a very interesting interview with her from last year:
http://jazztimes.com/articles/167330-a-conversation-with-vocal-legend-annie-ross

killer free show at noon this thursday in Brooklyn with Charenee Wade, Brianna Thomas and Catherine Russell
http://www.bam.org/music/2016/ladies-sing-the-blues
if you dig female vocalists and live in the nyc area, this is not to be missed.

Ah. Would go. But noon doesn't work. Loved hearing Catherine Russell interviewed a few months ago on WBGO on Singers Unlimited, which I am listening to right now, about her mother and her project with Carolyn Leonhart and one other vocalist.

Tanya Hall

Aargh.
La Tanya Hall

Also, don't want to turn into the street team, but Gabrielle Stravelli's Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer tribute at Kitano the Wednesday before last was killer.

love the shamelessness of old-ilx on here. i own three compact discs and here is my opinion of teh vocal jazz!

You gotta crawl before you can creep, don't you?

btw, Gregory Porter doing a free show at Celebrate BK this Thursday
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival/gregory-porter-marcus-strickland-twi-life

Still haven't seen him. I may have mentioned on this thread or another that I saw bass player I think he usually uses, Aaron James, as a sub on a Junior Mance gig and he killed it.

watched this recently. short film. i dug the rehearsal stuff with her group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weuqez4HfJ8

xp Porter's okay; a little too mellow for me but the Rawls-level of quality is kinda undeniable.
Curious to see Marcus Strickland live.

You'll just have to make do with Gregory Porter singing "Holding On" with Brit electro act Disclosure

the impression I got from Cecile Mclorin Salvant's last album was that she has a wonderful voice + bluesy mannerisms, but she is too much of a stylist and doesn't put enough of herself into the songs.

― calzino, Thursday, June 9, 2016 9:06 PM (ten months ago)

Saw her live last night with her pianist Aaron Diehl. Voice and choice of songs sounded great live. She is definitely a musical theatre type but with a strong gutbucket bluesy passion, and in introducing the songs always mentioned the lyrical messages. 2 Jelly Roll Morton ones, 3 or 4 Cole Porter, Gershwin from Porgy & Bess, a Nancy Wilson number and more

i love her to death but i prob have already said this.