Gloria Lynne, Dakota Staton and other female jazz vocal balladeers

So it seems that John Hammond and Columbia did right by Aretha quality-wise, but inadvertently set her up to be clobbered by the resurgence and then some of kid pop-rock-r&b, in the wake of the Beatles and rise of Motown etc, with no mainstream label room for the older jazz vocal approach, until the 80s, say---reminding me of what happened to the somewhat prodgious Carol Sloane:

This week, we’re paying tribute to jazz singer and song stylist Carol Sloane, who passed away on January 23, 2023. Sloane was one of the last surviving singers from that golden age of the American Songbook in the mid 20th century. After recording a few albums for Columbia in the 1960s, Sloane remained out of the spotlight for several decades, before emerging as a mature and celebrated song interpreter in the 1980s. This hour, I’ll chronicle her career, from her early days to her late-career Renaissance, highlighting some notable recordings along the way.

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The album "Love You Madly" was one of several albums Carol Sloane recorded for Contemporary Records in the late 1980s (Album Cover, Contemporary Records)

You think John Hammond and Columbia did right by Aretha quality-wise by limiting her to a traditional Jazz approach? I feel like she was better off quality wise when she left and joined Wexler and recorded at Muscle Shoals.

The Hammond-Columbia era Aretha tracks *that I've heard* sound good-faith to me, and rock etc was mostly trade winds in the early 60s, aside from the girl group trendette and a few others---Columbia geezers just didn't know what was around the corner, or at least that it would blow up so big, with lasting sea change impact.

Anyway, she sounds awesome on the Afterglow selection, and I must hear more.