Jazz Vocalists - CD/SD

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

http://www.divaville.org

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!

x-post James Redd

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

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?