epistrophy007 Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Oh yes! Bobbe Norris Jackie Paris Joe Derise Lucy Reed Jackie & Roy Pinky Winters Kitty White Beverly Kenney Bev Kelly Marilyn Moore Ann Richards Helen Humes Helen Carr Inez Jones Frances Wayne Mavis Rivers Teri Thornton Sylvia Syms Teddi King Earl Coleman Ann Burton Kenny Hagood Alice Darr Peggy Connelly Ann Hathaway ... are a few singers from the past I like to add... impossible for me to select only three (since I am mainly a lover and collector of jazz songbirds (well known and forgotten) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Joe Derise Lucy Reed Pinky Winters Kitty White Beverly Kenney Marilyn Moore Helen Carr Inez Jones Alice Darr Peggy Connelly Ann Hathaway Some totally new names to me. Let's see what Spotify can do for me on these names... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Beverly Kenney is a not-uninteresting case, personally and musically. And she had loooong fingers, which I kinda dig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 And she had loooong fingers, which I kinda dig. First time I've come across that particular fetish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Not really a fetish, just something I noticed about her from the album cover photos, and I thought it was attractive. Not a "turn-on" or anything, just attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Didn't know anything about Beverly Kenney, so I googled her and found that she committed suicide at the age of 28. Surprising and shocking that someone so young would die in that manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epistrophy007 Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 @JSngry - I suggest you watch her "recently" posted video clip on youtube...(every Kenney fan's "wet dream" so to say, long fingers or not) Filmed only a couple of monthes before she took her own life...AND!!!!!!! doin' some tunes she never ever recorded at all! What's more she even gets Hugh Hefner into joining a song with her... Rather creepy how he eats her with his eyes...@Paul Secor - you can read more about her on Bill Reed's blog (drchilledair). And lucky for us all of her albums are imprint (Japan of course), including three cd's with previously unissued material. The US re-issue of the first of those discs 'Snuggled On Your Shoulders', also contains 4 extra bonus tracks taped at Birdland with the Gildo Mahones Trio...Way cool stuff, and extra interesting because she sounds different than on her studio albums...She takes wat more liberties etc...@Pete C. Some of these singers are worthwhile to check out...Perhaps interesting for some people is that Marilyn Moore was once Mrs Al Cohn and father of guitarist Joe Cohn...Some say her career was cut short because of the very similar sound and approach to songs as Billie Holiday. Leonard Feather thought high about her. She recorded a beautiful album for Bethlehem 'Moody' with excellent backings from Al Cohn, Joe Wilder, Don Abney, Barry Galbraith, (and I think Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson, not sure though) She recorded the music of 'Oh, Captain' an elusive LP/collectors item featuring songs/tunes from Dick Hyman & Feather as playd by Coleman Hawkins and Tony Scott etc...vocals by Jackie Paris, Moore and on one song Osie Johnson... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Didn't know anything about Beverly Kenney, so I googled her and found that she committed suicide at the age of 28. Surprising and shocking that someone so young would die in that manner. Not to get too dark about it, but, what with the world and life being what it is and all, that's a twistedly "logical" (forgive the word choice...) time to do it if you're so inclined, late 20s, early 30s...right when the idealism starts to hit a brick wall & the pragmatism hasn't yet taken root...all that's left is cynicism, unencumbered and unimpeded. BOOM goes the dynamite if you're so inclined... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Didn't know anything about Beverly Kenney, so I googled her and found that she committed suicide at the age of 28. Surprising and shocking that someone so young would die in that manner. Not to get too dark about it, but, what with the world and life being what it is and all, that's a twistedly "logical" (forgive the word choice...) time to do it if you're so inclined, late 20s, early 30s...right when the idealism starts to hit a brick wall & the pragmatism hasn't yet taken root...all that's left is cynicism, unencumbered and unimpeded. BOOM goes the dynamite if you're so inclined... I hear you and understand what you're saying. It still shocked me when I read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Yeah, I hear you, it's not something you really expect, ever... Here's that YouTube clip: Two observations - the way she sings "mumps" is one of those things that comes out of nowhere, hits you upside your head hard, and then is gone by the time you gather your senses enough to look for it: & I think she more than adequately bedazzled Heffner, beating him at his own game. She had him eating out of her hand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Yeah, I hear you, it's not something you really expect, ever... Here's that YouTube clip: Two observations - the way she sings "mumps" is one of those things that comes out of nowhere, hits you upside your head hard, and then is gone by the time you gather your senses enough to look for it: & I think she more than adequately bedazzled Heffner, beating him at his own game. She had him eating out of her hand! Yeah. There are times during that video clip when Hefner comes off like an awkward teenager in awe of an adult woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipi Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Female: 1. Ella 2. Bessie (blues counts, right?) 3. Heartbreak for number 3: Nina Simone? Billie Holiday? Lavern Baker, just for that wonderful Bessie Smith cover album she did? Baby Cox for just those four sides she made with Ellington? I have no idea. Male: 1. Louis 2. Jimmy Rushing 3. Similar trouble as with the women. Bing? Teagarden? ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 I'm not a vocal guy. I'm hard-pressed to list three vocalists I can tolerate, much less enjoy*. Same here! The only two pure singers I would buy albums by are Dinah Washington and Jimmy Rushing. Otherwise I would simply prefer the backup band to ditch the singer and take instrumental solos instead. It is a different case with instrumentalists who also sang, like Jack Teagarden. Some of them I can (somewhat) enjoy or at least tolerate. But even so, I still prefer them playing their horns to actually singing. To even come up with a third name, I had to think a bit. I have actually liked early Kay Starr when she was Charlie Barnet, so I'll throw her in. Thus: 1) Dinah Washington 2) Jimmy Rushing 3) Kay Starr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 1) Dinah Washington 2) Jimmy Rushing 3) Kay Starr If you changed #1 to Billie Holiday I'd suspect you were Lester Young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjazzman Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 The greatest female jazz singer of all time Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams, it's that simple........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 Oh yes! Bobbe Norris Jackie Paris Joe Derise Lucy Reed Jackie & Roy Pinky Winters Kitty White Beverly Kenney Bev Kelly Marilyn Moore Ann Richards Helen Humes Helen Carr Inez Jones Frances Wayne Mavis Rivers Teri Thornton Sylvia Syms Teddi King Earl Coleman Ann Burton Kenny Hagood Alice Darr Peggy Connelly Ann Hathaway ... are a few singers from the past I like to add... impossible for me to select only three (since I am mainly a lover and collector of jazz songbirds (well known and forgotten) A few swing era songbirds who haven't been mentioned yet--Maxine Sullivan, Mildred Bailey, and Midge Williams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 A few swing era songbirds who haven't been mentioned yet--Maxine Sullivan... She may have come up in the swing era, but it was in her Concord years that she became a truly top tier singer, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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