Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD

i really like sarah vaughan as well. she has the same sensitivity as the best instrumentalists. there is a version somewhere of "they cant take that away from me" where she sings the word "key" in the line "the way you sing off key" off key and its fucking brilliant.

I think I need to start checking out jazz magazines. I don't like most of the genre, but what else is there currently? Obviously that will seem like an outrageous question, but fundamentally that's how I feel. Outside of some foreign things, there's not too much new music for my to get excited about beyond some avant-garde jazz and accessible experimental music.

(I've been forgetting to use my new e-mail address.)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross might deserve mention, too.

Anyway, anyone interested ought to pick up Teagarden's "Mis'ry and the Blues," from the early '60s...mellow, good-natured stuff.

Annette Peacock - My Mama Never Taught Me How To Cook
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - The Cry of My People
Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening
Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music

Ernie Andrews is another great one who doesn't get talked about much.

Betty Carter's Feed the Fire, from '93 with DeJohnette, Holland and Geri Allen, was a fine disc, doesn't sound over "mannered" at all.

AP sings in a gruff bluesy tone over sorta out, blues rock jams. at times she reminds me of Linda Sharrock (especially on the fusiony Paradise album). she also does a bunch of sing/talk stuff and has often been compared to Patti Smith (even though it's the other way around as she like to point out in her hillarious liner notes - she's an egomaniac, but almost has a right to believe the stuff she belives). she was the first person to sing through a Moog keyboard, and some of that stuff is just WILD. the other closest comparison i have is that Escalator Over the Hill album. both very, very of their 70s times

I bought an EP of hers from the early 50s at an antique shop a few years back, found out it was worth a nice chunk of change and sold it, but I recall a really pretty version of "Fools Rush In" that I'd like to hear again.

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Heard Billie Holiday and Dakota Staton songs on the radio today. Just gorgeous.

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I used to DJ at her old station, and it was always cool to watch her shift begin, as she brought in crates and crates of vocal jazz.

David Raposa, et al.,

Why hasn't anyone defended Peggy Lee in the time intervening David's comment at the top of this thread and now? Haven't you heard Black Coffee?

Somebody said something bad about Peggy Lee upthread?

nobody said nothing about Joe Williams upthread (ok neither would i have 4 years ago, went through a phase of jw last year). love that 'flickering' thing he did with his otherwise luxurious baritone and he was equally adept at blues and soul jazz and such as he was with the jazz standards from what i've heard.

and i still haven't heard much of the count basie stuff with which he made his name. and he was claire huxtable's dad!

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Maybe not, maybe it's just a poorly thought-out paragraph that can be ambiguously interpreted.. Practically the second post in the thread.

Oh yeah, now I see the problem.

Here is a Peggy Lee thread for further reference Peggy Lee is the Bomb

joe williams is incredible

right now im listening to 'traveling miles,' after being reminded of cassandra's existence by the new yorker :-/ but 'run the voodoo down' is pretty impressive

I'm looking for Chanukah ideas! Joe Williams might work. Dinah Washington sounded great the other weekend on WPFW radio. Hmmm what to get.

I wanna see that Anita O'Day bio doc that is showing in DC (I think it may still be around that is).

RIP Chris Connor.

I gave her own thread yesterday and Scott Seward and I were the only ones who posted on it

Chris Connor (jazz vocalist) R.I.P.

I really should listen to Gretchen Parlato, who won the 2009 Village Voice Jazz Vocals critics award category. I wonder if she's as good as they think--or should I just stick with older recordings.

Older recordings by jazz vocal legend types I mean.

Liked her live performance better than the record of hers that I bought, but haven't heard the latest.

I watched 2 youtube videos--one where she was going for a Brazilian bossa feel and one where she sang in a quicker tempo than I'm used to for jazz vocals. Haven't made up my mind yet

I like that fact that she sings Brazilian numbers in the original Portuguese.

Yep that's good, although maybe some Brazilians might be picky about her accent.

Also worth mentioning on this thread (or maybe she has one of her own) is that I received a copy of the new Nina Simone bio, "Princess Noire: the Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone," done by the author of a Dinah Washington bio (and other books including one on Chess Records) Nadine Cohodas. She lives in DC but I've never seen any mention of her doing any readings/appearances for any of her books (George Pelecanos does them all the time). I've never actually read any of her books but would like too. Not sure why kind of reviews she gets.

Not sure what kind of reviews she gets