― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 13 March 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd (todd), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Heard Billie Holiday and Dakota Staton songs on the radio today. Just gorgeous.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bendy, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Somebody said something bad about Peggy Lee upthread?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 10 April 2008 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 10 April 2008 02:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― tremendoid, Thursday, 10 April 2008 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 10 April 2008 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, now I see the problem.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 11 April 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Here is a Peggy Lee thread for further reference Peggy Lee is the Bomb
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 11 April 2008 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP Chris Connor.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 September 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that fact that she sings Brazilian numbers in the original Portuguese.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure what kind of reviews she gets
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Abbey Lincoln: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/arts/music/15lincoln.html
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
abbeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
― zorn_bond.mp3, Sunday, 15 August 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
singer, writer, actress, painter and more...an impressive life
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 August 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
riplistened to her quite a bit recently, always intriguing, agitated in a great way
― dont wear sh@q without the fu (tremendoid), Monday, 16 August 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to add to my Abbey Lincoln collection (and see "Girl Can't Help It" again).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 August 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 August 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Gretchen Parlato's new album sounds pretty good; she's amazing live and, when she's in tandem with Lionel Loueke, essentialhttp://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=134795606&m=134799491
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Was wondering about that. Friend posted link to her Facebook page which broke my computer. Well, shut the tab in the browser, is all.
― Phred "Psonic" Psmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 March 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
It's really nice, i'm on second listen.
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhhh robert glasper is the producer; explains quite a bit.
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
great cover of "All That I Can Say" on here... and a solid Simply Red cover too!
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-03/entertainment/30256192_1_wynton-marsalis-bed-stuy-grammy
Gregory Porter c/d?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
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
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
The first post in this thread is insane
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yes
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
OH I see. Impulse Records at 50.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
The first post in this thread is insaneHis 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.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of people have trouble with lots of jazz vocalist but singling out those three was bananas.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
i saw that jon hendricks show; it was a greeeeeaaaaat time
― loads of personality, loved to chase chickens (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no, you didn't. Did you? Did he sing "Crepuscule With Nellie?" Did you get in on a forks discount?
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Any suggestions for a good place to start with Dinah Washington?
― o. nate, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link