fasstrack Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 No love for Irene Kral? Â This is my favourite by her........ Â Much love. Especially that album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 If no one's mentioned Shirley Horn yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 Yes, Cassandra Wilson, especially if one contemplates the different realities between being a jazz singer and being a singer who sings jazz-sounding music. Definitely. After seeing her outstanding performance with Jason Moran the other night, I was struck once again by the fact that she has one of the most distinctive voices and unique senses of phrasing in jazz (or whatever kind of music you want to call it). For some reason I stopped listening to her several years ago, but plan to revisit her now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 Madeleine Peyroux sang at the Chicago Jazz Festival the year Esperanza Spalding and Dee Alexander sang there. Peyroux sang like a women, the others sang like girls. Moving album of original songs by Peyroux about 3 years ago. Behind-the-beat, faintly Ladylike, no histrionics or scatting at all. Warning: the jazz police hate her singing. Probably the same people who keep comparing her with Billie Holiday, I'm a big fan of Madeleine. I love her time and her songs. I think you are referring to "Standing on the rooftop". My favourite songs of that album are "Don't pick a fight with a poet" and "The kind you can't afford". Such fun lyrics on both. She's a big example for me as singer songwriter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 (edited) I never espected it to be Louis van Dijk to be the pianist on that song. He is a skilled player but I wouldn't consider him a jazz pianist really, in this case more blues. I think I have heard him play classical mostly. Cyril might disagree with me and be right, since I have never really followed him. Why should I ? Louis had a trio with Jacques Schols and Johnny Engels at that time. That's all... Though in1961 Louis won the famous Jazzconcours in Loosdrecht. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Dijk & http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Dijk Edited November 24, 2013 by Cyril Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 (edited) I meant that possitive. I just meant to say you'd probably know more about Louis his career than I would, since I have the impression you know a lot in this area. I'm still a new comer. I came to jazz relatively late. No jazz in our house hold when I was a girl, not even pop music. I did watch all those old movies on tv which almost all had jazz. I just didn't realize it was jazz at the time. I 'had' to play classical piano which was expected of me being a girl. What I have discovered I did on my own and the last 5 years with help of musicians. It has been and is such fun discovering and I can learn so much from all of you here. Thanks for having me around. regards, page Edited November 25, 2013 by page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 Cassandra Wilson for me. Love that woman and her singing. And if she sang (more, there's a smidgeon) jazz: Paula Morelenbaum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 (edited) Jonathan Schwartz has been playing a relatively new singer named Diana Panton. From Canada and excellent. Edited November 25, 2013 by fasstrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 Among living female jazz singers try Mary Stallings.I second that. Excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted November 25, 2013 Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 Among living female jazz singers try Mary Stallings. I second that. Excellent. Fine warm singer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 I thought this thread was focused on LIVING female jazz singers. Here are a few more that I like. Claire Martin Madeline Eastman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Schwartz Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 (edited) I thought this thread was focused on LIVING female jazz singers. Here are a few more that I like. Claire Martin Madeline Eastman Along with Madeline, another San Francisco treat Kitty Margolis, and the often mentioned Mary Stallings. Not everyone's cuppa tea....I like Carmen Lundy quite a lot. She was terrific at Monterey Festival in Sept! Edited November 26, 2013 by Mike Schwartz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
page Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 If you like some Brazil: Luciana Souza and Romero Lubambo - Dindi album Duos III and my favourite rendition of Carinhoso: Marisa Monte and Paulinho da Viola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeline Posted November 27, 2013 Report Share Posted November 27, 2013 (edited) Good choices, page! My current new album choice (jazz, not Brazilian) is René Marie's latest, featuring Wycliffe Gordon and many others - really nice charts and interpretations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvsXJfQQ3U Edited November 27, 2013 by seeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Guy Posted November 28, 2013 Report Share Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) I absolutely adore Sara Serpa. She has made two records with Ran Blake that rival (IMO) his work with Jeanne Lee, though the two are very different. Both albums are equally sublime-- Camera Obscura (Inner Circle, 2010) & Aurora (Clean Feed, 2012). Her own quintet, with which she works in vocalese, is a thing of beauty. Mobile (Inner Circle, 2012) is the latest and best. I can't wait for her next release. Here is her take on "When Sunny Gets Blue" with Ran, which was performed by Lee on Newest Sound Around in 1962. http://saraserpa.bandcamp.com/track/when-sunny-gets-blue :tup OTOH -- sorry Phil -- I don't get Kristen Slipp at all. You're not alone! I love her! End of A Love Affair Love Sara Serpa & Luciana Souza too! Edited November 28, 2013 by Trumpet Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted November 29, 2013 Report Share Posted November 29, 2013 I like Kate McGarry also. Very personal and brave in her choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 30, 2013 Report Share Posted November 30, 2013 Ordered a copy of the Devorah Day disc - very curious about it. There are very few jazz singers in a free style like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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