The Jazz Vocalists
The Roots (The Blues and the Big Band Singers)
Bessie Smith (Blues) 1920s
Louis Armstrong (trumpet, Voice) (1901-1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y6EMMhDCGo
Coming to prominence in the 20s as an innovative cornet and trumpet virtuoso,
Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from
collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice,
Armstrong was an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser,
bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly
skilled at scat singing, or wordless vocalizing.
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence, Armstrong's influence extended well
beyond jazz, and by the end of his career in the '60s, he was widely regarded as a
profound influence on popular music in general: critic Steve Leggett describes Armstrong
as "perhaps the most important American musician of the 20th century."[5]
Ella fitzgerald (Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996, 78 years old))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL9vr4Q2LU&feature=related
One Note Samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYnpApOkQg
Gee Baby Ain’t I good to you (joe Pass and Ella)
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American
jazz singer and songwriter.
Nicknamed Lady Day[1] by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was a
seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style — strongly inspired by
instrumentalists — pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also
popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote
that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."[2] She co-wrote only a few
songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child",
"Don't Explain", and "Lady Sings the Blues".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqjW2uhBT4
Fine and Mellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7VNrRS3Sv0
What a little moonlight can do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtUzdI5hlE&feature=related the blues are Brewing
Bing Crosby Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an
Academy Award winning American popular singer and actor whose career lasted from
1926 until his death.
One of the first multimedia stars,
from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio
ratings, and motion picture grosses.[1] He is cited among the most popular musical acts in
history and is currently the most electronically recorded human voice in history. [2]
Crosby is also credited as being the major inspiration for most of the male singers of the
era that followed him, including Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin. Yank
magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I.
morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him
the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII.[1][3] Also
during 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of
the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.[3] Clarinetist Artie
Shawdescribed Crosby as "the first hip white person born in the United States."[4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uROuR3Jm6M&feature=fvsr
Pennies From Heaven
Cab Calloway
Ethel waters
Rosemary Clooney
Doris Day
Frank Sinatra
Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6XF4Yf6qNI
Great Interpreters of the jazz standards and Latin
Tony Bennett
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tania Maria
(Bresil)
Flora Purim
Nancy Wilson (born February 20, 1937) is an American singer with seventy-plus
albums, and three Grammy Awards so far in her career. She's been labeled a singer of
blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The
title she prefers, however, is song stylist.[1] She has received many nicknames--"Sweet
Nancy, The Baby" and the "Fancy Miss Nancy" are only two of them.[2]
http://missnancywilson.com/
João Gilberto
Dinah Washington
Sammy Davis Jr.
Aaron Nevill
Jimmy Scott
Abby Lincon
Harry Connick Jr.
June Christie
Cleo Lane
Scat Singers
Carmen McRae (piano/voice/composer/actress)(1922-1994) 60 albums during her
career
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvg1FDEvoY
What a little moonlight can do to you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ktgyt3OTo&feature=related body and soul live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzIh-Z4CuI&feature=related
Round Midnight
Betty Carter (singer/Song writer) (May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an
American jazz singer who was renowned for her improvisational technique and
idiosyncratic vocal style. Carmen McRae once claimed that "there's really only one jazz
singer - only one: Betty Carter."[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgfKgDqzjs original song “Tight”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXzDJF8Omc8 one of her last filmed performance
Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones in Flint, Michigan and grew up in Detroit, where her
father led a church choir. She studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. She won a talent
contest and became a regular on the local club circuit, singing and playing piano. When
she was 16, she sang with Charlie Parker, and she later performed with Dizzy Gillespie
and Miles Davis.
June Christie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfNsZaDk-A&feature=related with Nat King Cole,
and Mel Tome
Mel Torme (1925- 1999) the Velvet Fog
Bobby McPhearan
Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One") (March 27, 1924 –
April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of
the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".[1] She had a contralto vocal range. [2]
Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner.[3] The National Endowment for the Arts
bestowed upon her its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFj8eTh--Eg&feature=related
Round Midnight live with Dizzy Gillespie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9HxfF7faXk
The shadow of your smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1X6y9Gzhs&feature=related
The sassy one
MarkMurphy
Diane Reeves
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Al Jareau
Cassandra Wilson
Joe Willians (Blues)
Sheila Jordan
Anita O’Day
Born Anita Belle Colton in Chicago, Illinois on October 18, 1919. Anita died on
Thanksgiving morning November 23, 2006. O’Day got her start as a teen. She eventually
changed her name to O’Day and in the late 1930’s began singing in a jazz club called the
Off- Beat, a popular hangout for musicians like band leader and drummer Gene Krupa. In
1941 she joined Krupa’s band, and a few weeks later Krupa hired trumpeter Roy
Eldridge. O’Day and Eldridge had great chemistry on stage and their duet “Let Me Off
Uptown” became a million-dollar-seller, boosting the popularity of the Krupa band. Also
that year, “Down Beat” magazine named O’Day “New Star of the Year” and, in 1942,
she was selected as one of the top five big band singers....(continued on her web site)
http://www.anitaoday.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXKvaDxxyUc
Tea for Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTW1nBg_TF8&feature=related
sweet Georgia Brown
Vocal Groups and Vocalize (writing words to Jazz Solos)
Lambert Hendrix and Ross (Annie Ross, John Hendrix, Dave Lambert(the vocal
arranger)Group formed in the late 50s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anrXYEAkg8U&feature=related
King Pleasure (His Hit Moody’s mood for love was in 1952)
Amy winehouse (singing Moody’s Mood for Love) YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHho1IxcjbE&feature=related
Joe Henderson
Eddy Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYMZs6UBGlQ
Double Six
Manhattan Transfer (Popular during the 80s and 90s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa1khK65-V8&feature=related
Kurt Elling (born in 1967) 7 albums on Blue Note.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxWYlEUda
Singer Instrumentalistes
Jamie Cullum (28 years old from Britain)
The 28-year-old's Verve debut, Twentysomething, was a worldwide smash last year,
selling over two million copies (including nearly 400,000 in the States) and garnering a
Grammy nomination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwNY6ch3B50&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1r6GcPqFSo&feature=related
Nina simone
(piano/voice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSzfw8FE-o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ&feature=related
Chet Baker(trumpet/voice)
Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and
mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally restrained, intimate playing style and he
attracted attention beyond jazz for his photogenic looks and singing. But his career was
marred by drug addiction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGcJ-0Yr84
It Could happen to you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXywhJpOKs&feature=related
My Funny Valentine.
Georges Benson
(guitar/voice)
Esperanza Spalding (Bass/voice)
http://www.esperanzaspalding.com/cms/
for her biography go to her website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15M62OtLrBQ
body and soul live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNw46j0nNOs&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJg-ZfQh7w8&feature=channel
There is a ton of videos on Utube check her out.
Nat King Cole
(piano/voice)
Shirley Horne
(Piano/voice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnB7lCvE1s4
Once I loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INsLeBrFPKM&feature=related
Something happens to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRUr87rZ6AE&feature=related
Estate
Diane Shure
(piano/voice)
Blossom Dearie (Piano/voice)
Diana Krall
(Piano/voice)
Champian Fulton
http://www.champian.net/live/
Official Web site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzCkDquycc4
tea for two live
Melody Gardot
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Melody Gardot /ɡɑrˈdoʊ/ (born February 2, 1985) is a Grammy-nominated American
singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, though she considers herself a
"citizen of the world".[1] She has been influenced by such blues and jazz artists as Judy
Garland, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and George Gershwin as
well as Latin music artists such as Caetano Veloso.[2] Her music has been compared to
that of Nina Simone.[3]
Gardot follows the teachings of Buddhism,[4][5] is a macrobiotic cook[6] and humanitarian
who often speaks about the benefits of music therapy. She has visited various universities
and hospitals to speak about its ability to help reconnect neural pathways in the brain,
improve speech ability, and lift general spirits. In a recent interview she was
rumored[citation needed] to be working closely in a university in the United States to help
develop a program for music therapy and the management of pain, something she has
spoken about establishing in the future on her own.[citation needed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcebJ37cZKQ
Baby I’m a Fool (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM9JBNRDJzE&feature=related
Who will comfort me