Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD

RIP Abbey Lincoln: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/arts/music/15lincoln.html

Awww, that's sad. She had a unique style that I liked. Damn, jazz photographer Herman Leonard just died, conjunto accordionist Esteban Jordan, and Lincoln. A tough series of days for the music world.

abbeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

singer, writer, actress, painter and more...an impressive life

rip
listened to her quite a bit recently, always intriguing, agitated in a great way

I need to add to my Abbey Lincoln collection (and see "Girl Can't Help It" again).

Likewise. I don't know enough about her earlier stuff, but this one from the 90s has gotten a lot of play at my house:

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc600/c667/c6679593b01.jpg

Gretchen Parlato's new album sounds pretty good; she's amazing live and, when she's in tandem with Lionel Loueke, essential
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=134795606&m=134799491

Was wondering about that. Friend posted link to her Facebook page which broke my computer. Well, shut the tab in the browser, is all.

It's really nice, i'm on second listen.

ahhhh robert glasper is the producer; explains quite a bit.

great cover of "All That I Can Say" on here... and a solid Simply Red cover too!

Gonna have to miss her tonight and tomorrow in DC at Bohemian Caverns. Here's a kinda interesting interview with her

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/04/15/its-more-than-a-whisper-a-conversation-with-gretchen-parlato/

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-03/entertainment/30256192_1_wynton-marsalis-bed-stuy-grammy

Gregory Porter c/d?

ANDY MOTHERFUCKING BEY by the way will be playing at Lincoln Center Jazz this Friday and I am really looking forward to it.
Also gonna be a full performance of Coltrane's Africa/Brass

The first post in this thread is insane

Yes

Who else is on the Andy Bey gig? I saw him once but I'd really like to see him with this guitar player who plays with him a lot, Paul Meyers, who was also up at Lincoln Center last month with Jon Hendricks for Jon's ninetieth birthday.

Been meaning to check out Gregory Porter. He played at the excellent North Square Jazz Brunch http://northsquarejazz.com/ a few times but I never made it. This guy who usually plays bass with him, Aaron James, is really good, like second coming of Paul Chambers.

OH I see. Impulse Records at 50.

The first post in this thread is insane
His second comment even more so:
But Louis Armstrong, I find it very hard to take him seriously as a vocalist. In any sense.
I mean, I don't think pop singing was taken seriously UNTIL Armstrong's first vocal recordings in the 1920s. Then it became high art.

Lots of people have trouble with lots of jazz vocalist but singling out those three was bananas.

i saw that jon hendricks show; it was a greeeeeaaaaat time

Oh no, you didn't. Did you? Did he sing "Crepuscule With Nellie?" Did you get in on a forks discount?

A little greased-lightning vocalese from Mr. Hendricks. I actually prefer a different version which is slower, but I couldn't find it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDbAsndZGW0

Any suggestions for a good place to start with Dinah Washington?

First Issue: the Dinah Washington Story is a pretty good 2-CD overview, while the The Definitive Dinah Washington keeps things to one disc.
Other good studio albums includes After Hours with Miss D, Dinah Jams and Dinah!

In The Land of HiFi is pretty great.

There is a really cool medley of "Cloudburst" and a Stephen Sondheim song "Getting Married Today" by John Pizzarelli and his wife Jessica Molaskey.

lol, i did get in on a forks discount actually.
no nellie, but he did "in walked bud" among plenty other stuff.
seeing hendricks and bobby mcferrin freestyle together was a great bucket list moment
Diane Reeves ripping up Social Call didn't hurt either.
And the second act full length big band set from Jimmy Heath weren't too shabby!
great night
i actually got to meet and talk with Hendricks when he played the blue note earlier this year. what a passionate, vivacious, powerhouse of a guy. If that's ninety, I can't wait to feel and look that good. He spent a lot of time talking about astrology!

Wait, are you saying you went that show he played with Annie Ross?

yeah, were you at that one?
i waited upstairs to talk to both of them and annie came out distracted and i took her hand with both of mine and gave her a real serious heartfelt "thank you" and she stopped and we had a super minor for her very major for me moment of her looking me over and then saying "you're welcome honey" and she went down the stairs and was gone

No, I thought about going but couldn't make it and don't really like to go to the Blue Note too much. I've seen Annie before at the Metropolitan Room a few times. Actually what I did do was the weekend before that show, Annie's piano player had a gig at Smalls so I went down there and my long shot came in when Jon showed up dressed in his captain's whites. I talked to him for a second and got to see him sing a few numbers including "Crepuscule with Nellie," which he said he never recorded because Nellie wouldn't let him because it was too personal and "In Walked Bud." Now that I think about it I've also seen Andy Bey sing that last one.

i've seen bey twice before; both times in small rooms and i was blown away by his voice
been listening to experience and judgment a lot lately and finding it to be like reading rumi

JRatB, we likely wobble in the same circles.

We need to get Hurting to come out more and close the loop.

I never got around to listening to AB's records, only saw him once and I didn't like the band he had that night so much but I liked some of what he was doing, especially a song about the blues with all these elaborate lyrics about the different specific meanings the word "blues" has in music. I need to listen to more.

no time like the present:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQOHF3pZmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbnIT_DoRv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTP7gZsDYE

Thanks. Complete derail, but you weren't at Drom for this event, were you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfYwm2HgLCQ&noredirect=1

no. looks like a good time tho. i've done some work with the drom cats.

It was pretty cool especially later when some other cats joined in. I remember watching that show and gradually calming down after having gotten into some beef on an early loutallica thread.

Back to the topic, sort of: When I went to see Annie Ross the second time she remembered me from the time before because I had requested a song so I was pretty happy but then after the show I overstayed my welcome a little on the receiving line and somebody, Warren Vaché, maybe, gave me the back off look so I got out of there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTW1nBg_TF8&feature=artist

umm.

RIP Chuck Brown. Your album with Eva Cassidy nicely mixed blues and jazz

http://www.evacassidy.org/eva/citypaper.htm

aw man, that sucks

I just can't get into Kurt Elling's voice. Listening on Spotify to his new "1619 Broadway:The Brill Building Project" cd.

Washington Post reviewer just raved about his live show highlighting that album. Ehh. I'll stick with old-schoolers.

Other than a song or two here or there (I like his over the top version of "Nature Boy") he's too showoffy and too much for me too.

I have more time for him than you guys do

goddamn this cecile mclorin-salvant album is good
she's killer live too

Will have to check that out.

Buika covers Billie Holiday and Abbey Lincoln on her new cd. I like her "velvet gravel" voice (saw that description in the press kit)

Pretty soon that entire press kit will appear on ilx in one place or another.

I keep trying to find someone else interested in her on ilx, but am about to give up. She's recording an NPR Tiny Desk show when she comes to DC next week. Maybe when that runs, someone here will find her of interest, but I doubt it. Maybe I'll add her to the Chitlin Circuit soul thread and see if XChuckx likes her.

I am kind of interested. I had some idea I was going to go out last night to ask John Benitez about it but I didn't.