Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD

Huh will have to checkbout merrill

Wtf

She has one child, known professionally as Alan Merrill, by her first marriage. A singer and songwriter, who wrote and recorded the original (1975) version of the rock classic "I Love Rock N Roll" as lead vocalist of Arrows, the British band.

Also check her albums with Gil Evans and Stan Getz.

listening to both the new Cecile McLorin Salvant and Zara McFarlane albums today, and loving both of them so far.

Gilles Peterson has been pushing Zara McFarlane a lot on his 6Music show. She's also on his record label...hmmm.
I'm currently enjoying Oscar Jerome (another Moses Boyd collaborator): a bit of a John Martynish thing going on.

I don't feel so guilty about leeching it off slsk now :p

I have a weirdly negative visceral reaction to lush, velvety jazz vocal records, like Ella with big band stuff -- she's an undeniably brilliant singer, but I just don't enjoy listening. I love Louis Armstrong's vocals on the early hot fives and sevens records but I feel the same way about his later more hi-fi recordings as I do about Ella's. Generally it's pretty rare that I feel an urge to put on a jazz vocals record.

Salvant album has been a regular joy for me since it came out... takes awhile to blossom imo but is a likely best of the year contender

I felt her last album was a bit too mannered or something, but the live album format has been a much better showcase for vocal talents imo.
xp
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie was the album that converted this Ella agnostic.

i agree with you on salvant calzino, last album was a bit disappointing.
she's spectacular in person live btw

currently chilling to Natasha Agrama's The Heart Of Infinite Change.

The Hilary Gardner/Ehud Asherie album The Late Set is some really elegant + classy torch singer/piano versions of lesser known American Standards. Nice!

Ooh, this is nice! Thanks for the tip.

Yes. Nice enough

May be time to head up to the Metropolitan Room to see Annie Ross again

there is no metropolitan room! they're doing stuff at the Triad and moving, but haven't announced where to yet. Ross not on the lineup atm.

Cecile got a MacArthur grant
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-list.html

Wow.

Trying to work out what Abbey Lincoln I need to get after finding out there were reissues of the turn of teh 60s solo recordings.
Now finding ot that the early 70s People In Me was reissued in the 90s.
& know nothing about the later stuff.

JUst did know taht her stuff on Max Roach's lps was pretty amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6q6XKKrik

Abbey Is Blue
You Gotta Pay the Band

the latter featuring lots of great original tunes of hers.

Bought a 2018 4 classic lps with the 4 lps from the turn of the 60s together. it skipped the very first lp which is apparently more orchestrated than the small group jazz lps featuring some interesting players.

so have Abbey IS Blue due in a week or so.

Will look at the You Gota Pay The Band set definitely.
Not sure why I didn't look into this ages ago cos I must have got teh set with the band playing Freedom Now Suite on European tv about 10 years ago. & had definitely rediscovered Driva Man a few years ago.

Painted Lady is great too

i've never heard a bad abbey lincoln album; her late era stuff is worth the trouble as well! i recall liking A Turtle's Dream from '95 and You Gotta Pay the Band from '91.
But of course Abbey is Blue and Freedom Now and We Insist and It's Time and anything she's ever done with Roach are all utterly essential.
Pleased that this thread alerted me to the spotify existence of a 100+ song collection of Abbey's work with Verve that came out in February

Get Straight Ahead ASAP!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B60tL9LdnbM

It's in that 4 lps on 2cd set
alongside Abbey Is Blue, It's Magic and That's Him.
Cheap set but I think it's also what I have the Max roach material with her on in.

Have heard People in Me referred to as Spiritual Jazz which I'm not sure fits but would have made sense of where i thought she would be at in the early 70s after doing a lot of activism and stuff. Read a story about her travelling with Miriam Makeba in the early 70s after splitting up with Roach and having a breakdown and things. Interesting artist.

she died right before i had a chance to see her do a full live show, real regret.

This is not her jazziest moment, but I don't know where else to put this since there's no Rosemary Clooney thread. It's a video I've wondered about for decades - where I saw it, what the hell it was, etc. Rosemary Clooney lip-syncing "Come On-a My House" at a new wave party. From a Steve Martin comedy-variety special called Twilight Theater that was broadcast once or twice in 1982 in the SNL time slot. She comes in just after the 2 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x8Uxmc9AOE

Love Rosemary Clooney. Her jazziest moment was with Duke and especially Billy Strayhorn along with some "Giant Step" changes avant la lettre!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO6dX15GmpM

that clooney freakout disco is really something.

nice, ^ that is great xp

(“blue rose”)

lol at this album cover:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Roseriddle.jpg/220px-Roseriddle.jpg

Some kind of weird Twin Peaks tie-in I can't parse.
https://chrystabell.com/the-significance-of-the-blue-rose/

This reminds me that I found myself in the odd position of defending Mitch Miller recently.

I guess one could argue Mitch Miller was one of the earliest producers to work through a modern kind of mindset, similar to the way contemporary hitmakers work

Yes, that is what I argued,or rather I borrowed the arguments of others. He also broke the color line by hiring Leslie Uggams.

And maybe that explains why "Come On-a My House" does sort of work as a new wave tune, whereas a Nelson Riddle arrangement would not

Think there is a whole chapter or at least a section on him in Susan Schmidt Horning's Chasing Sound.

I just got a copy of this, it’s super awesome:

https://img.discogs.com/3CMUYQZZAEJTsZPAT3sTePwmMu8=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4385407-1573333696-6819.jpeg.jpg

Pony Poindexter = Cannonball Adderly (name changed cuz he was under contract for another label at the time).

fantastic name he used there

some top class scatting as well.

Also of much related interest, covering a lot of ground: RFI: Vocal jazz songform

Oh yeah, and this is cool---can imagiene it as basis of a movie---from the teeming trove of Night Lights archives---stream, download:
https://indianapublicmedia.org/wpimages/nightlights/2011/01/Dick-and-Kiz-Harp.jpg

Dick and Kiz Harp were a husband-and-wife, piano-and-vocals duo who ran their own nightclub (converted from a warehouse and called "The 90th Floor," after a lesser-known Cole Porter song they performed) in Dallas, Texas at the end of the 1950s. They‘ve developed a cult following among jazz-vocal aficionados on the basis of two obscure LPs. The Harps, influenced by artists such as Sylvia Sims, Anita O‘Day, and Dick Marx‘s Chicago trio, came up with their own sound--a blend of cabaret, torch song, and Midwestern camp--riding strongly on Kiz Harp‘s magnetic stage presence and slightly hoarse, soulful voice (a listener described her as "Jeri Southern smoking two packs a day"). Their career ended suddenly and tragically in 1960. We‘ll hear music from both of their albums (available again at 90th Floor Records) and we‘ll talk with Bruce Collier, the founder and owner of 90th Floor Records, who recorded both Harp LPs.

https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/dick-and-kiz-harp-down-at-the-90th-floor.php

This young singer I saw in the Birdland Theater last night is pretty amazing, she’s like the second coming of Anita O’Day or something.

Name, please?

Anaïs Reno

My friend thought she sounded a little too studied in a video I sent him. I know where he is coming from but she has time to develop, she just turned nineteen, and she sounded great last night.

Will check her out, thx

Enjoyed a randomly purchased compilation of Sarah Vaughan over the last week . Great voice melismatic and all like that so I think I need to know more about her. This was a set of material from mid 50s to early 60s called Her Finest Hour. Pretty divine

Steveolende, check out Live at Mister Kelly's.

Dan, check out her Ellington & Strayhorn album, Lovesome Thing.

Or the new album, which is here:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kDZ_ZYYbOm_iEJGrOinviQN3qCOQUyh28