There ya go - Julie London. I used to have a lot of her albums. Loved those covers, especially Calendar Girl, a classic. Love that Peggy Lee Black Coffee cover too! Really enjoyed this video, and as always, learned some new, interesting and useful information. You do a great job with your videos!!!
I feel the need to mention that Aretha was also a fabulous jazz vocalist in her early days with Columbia before she became a soul singer at Atlantic. My favourite record of hers is "Laughing On The Outside", there is also a box set "Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete On Columbia" and a compilation titled "The Great American Songbook" that showcase that era of her career.
It was good to see Doris Day and Julie London honored as I think that they are often overlooked. I love the Peggy Lee reissue and will have to get that Sarah Vaughn. Great picks as always. --Randy
Love the videos and your picks which I mostly agree with. However you left out one of my top five jazz singers, Miss Dinah Washington. Her work with trumpeter Clifford Brown is enough to put her at the top of any list.
One of the things I love so much about Ella Fitzgerald's Live in Berlin is how much fun she's clearly having. Wonderful record, as are all your other choices.
Thanks Mazzy. I really like that Ella Fitzgerald "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!" album. It goes nicely with the Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book series. Great covers! - Chris
Great video Norman I too love Getz/Gilberto and Norah Jones I just picked up Day Breaks which is brilliant. My favourite female jazz vocalist is Blossom Dearie I love all of her music but my favourite record of hers is Sings Comden And Green I think it's just beautiful. I love her voice and she was a phenomenol piano player.
Great topic, this deserves a part II (cd maybe)-some outliers--Lurlean Hunter-"Night Life", Helen Grayco-"After Midnight", Lorez Alexandria, Dakota Staton, Helen Merrill and Blossom Dearie, granted some of these are more pop than jazz, but still great.
All great artists! Animals fans should hear Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone. The way I understand it, the song was written for her. A couple of others.. Karin Krog from Norway and Jeanne Lee. Both wonderful vocalists. A one off special mention is 7 year old Waheeda Massey who sings Quiet Dawn on Archie Shepp's Attica Blues album. She's just great and finishes off the album with grace and style.
Your comments on Bessie Smith particularly resonate. All or Nothing at All is perhaps Holiday's finest recording ever IMHO (and I've listened to all of them), proving the fallacy of so-called 'experts' who insist that latter period Holiday doesn't rank with her vivacious, earlier self. And Black Coffee...nicely done! I'm of the opinion that unfortunately both Diana Krall and (S)nora Jones do not belong in this rarified atmosphere. I know absolutely nothing with regard to either of their particular life experiences, but neither could have undergone much of anything harrowing; at least, not on par with what Bessie, Billie, Ella or Anita had to go through. If they had, you'd hear it in their voice. But you don't. Hey, kudos for them. I once heard an interviewer ask Benny Goodman about Wynton Marsalis (the NEW LION, all the current rage at the time). I'll never forget his reply: Goodman remarked that Marsalis sounded 'undernourished'. The same description applies to Krall and Jones.
Enjoyed seeing all these various singers being featured in a VC video...I’ve always loved the song “Black Coffee”, whether it’s by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee or whoever - but I don’t have that particular album, unfortunately-nice video Mazzy..
Cool choice for celebrating IWM. Julie London did make a another jazzish record with the Bud Shank Quintet supporting her. Frances Faye is a singer I think you would dig if you don't already know her. Also HELLO, TIGER by Sallie Blair which has arrangements by Neal Hefti of batman theme fame. Joe Mondragon died from injuries from a car accident in TJ. Had he survived they would have had to amputate his arms. My father knew him as they were both musicians involved in the west coast jazz scene. He more or less coached Joni Mitchell on her cover of twisted as she had not sung jazz before.
Just Joan (1956) by Joan Regan (English), romantic chill jazz, gorgeous production. Pay up to $450 for the original vinyl (popsike). Anita O'Day is widely considered the greatest vocal stylist in jazz - her phrasing and timing lives on the edge - a virtuoso - I'm lucky enough to have some of her 1950's original vinyl. See her on youtube in glorious colour live at Newport 1958. Also, Chris Connor (1956), the first jazz vocal LP on Atlantic with Zoot Sims, Helen Grayco After Midnight (1957) with Barney Kessel, and Freda Payne in 1964 before she went 'pop'. Also, the great Blossom Dearie, whose live solo vocal/piano performance of the notoriously difficult song Lush Life is better than the Coltrane/Hartmann version, imo.
so nice to hear anita o'day mentioned...she was so cool.....miss billie of couse is a given....my favorite album i have of hers is called 'songs and conversations'...it takes you right into the studio with her and the band and they figure out each note and tempo....remarkable piece...and of course one of my all time favorite album and singers....cassandra wilson 'coming forth by day'...exquisite....good stuff mazzy...peace always my friend...rocky
Sarah is the queen. :) I have an early 80s Japanese reissue of that 1954 EmArcy debut with Clifford Brown, and a Pure Pleasure audiophile reissue of her Columbia debut. Nancy Wilson did another nice collaboration with George Shearing, "The Swingin's Mutual."
So enjoyable, as always. Do you know the cover of "Black Coffee" by the Pointer Sisters? It's on their terrific early album, "That's a Plenty". Regular American and UK pressings are good, but there's a Speaker's Corner reissue that's a little more refined. I'm going to mention a couple of singers you may not be so familiar with: Jane Monheit and Karyn Allyson, especially the latter's album "Footprints". Finally a fabulous artist, but alas not on vinyl, but on well recorded Telarc CD, Jeanie Bryson. Her album of Peggy Lee covers is superb - "Some Cats Know". (She's the daughter of Dizzy Gillespie).
All excellent choices! For female vocalists over the past 30 years, I would add Cassandra Wilson - several of her Blue Note releases have been reissued on vinyl by Pure Pleasure.
My favourite current singer is Lauren Desberg. Her version of Herbie’s “Keep Running To Me” is fantastic. A photographer too! As far as I know Airto & Flora are still “happily” married. 💍
I must have been that same tour of Airto & Flora that I saw at The Bottom Line. A girl I was dating at the time took me. Didn't know much about her then, but have been a fan ever since. Some other great artists Kelley Smith, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne and must be some others, oh Ma Rainey, Big Mama Thorton. Maybe Ill do a video on this too !
nice video norman ,, some good pointers ,, only recently started listening to jazz ,, love the femail singers ,, recently started listening to melody gardot but i guess she is not really classed as jazz ? ,, but still she has a lovely voice , very laid back though ::)))
Loved the video content, although the audio was peculiar. It was Mono-ish with the majority of your voice being in the right channel. I don’t typically notice this in your videos!?
Peggy Lee was smoky cool bluesy. Black Coffee such a great cover. Still have original mono of Black Coffee from back when you could pick those up here pristine for pocket money. Lee's follow-up album too, with 'Close Your Eyes' on it, terrifically bluesy. After much flaffing about I decided Sarah Vaughan was best vocalist and not Ella Fitzgerald after all - - unduly impressed early on by Ella's awesome octave range - - and Sinatra did think Ella Fitzgerald was America's greatest vocalist on any level. But Sassy had more better blues and more authentic scat-singing. Ella's scat-singing sounds like a rampage through the octaves to demonstrate her range, but Sassy wasn't out to prove anything, closer to Billie Holiday's listen-and-like-it-or-get-lost. Then I decided Cleo Laine was the huskiest best jazz vocalist of all, and not just cos she kissed me when John Dankworth wasn't looking. Then I decided Billie Holiday was the greatest vocalist after all, and not just cos she punched out two guys who spilled beer on her furs that time in NY. Jazz had far more great female vocalists than male. Not something you could say about rock or folk. So why is that? why jazz? Annie Ross's 'Twisted,' still the best jazz song I know - - those atonal twists chasing fast whimsical lyrics up and down New York zigzag fire escapes (well that's what it sounds like) would so have suited 1950s UPA Cartoons. UPA did classic 'Tell Tale Heart' cartoon spoken by James Mason - - forget about lowbrow art forms, that 10-minute masterpiece measures up to anything in any form from the '50s in or out the Louvre. UPA could have really given 'Twisted' lyrics the runaround with oblique angles and expressionist interior/exteriors and asymmetry and scatty facial expressions for Annie Ross - - what a cartoon monument that would have been. I SEE it, skewed angles and all, every time I hear Annie Ross sing it, and it doesn't even exist. Say, maybe I better find an analyst.
@@cahabatunes380 just opened my gatefold, it clearly says “Recorded at Cafe Au Go-go, Greenwich Village, NYC, august 19, 1964 Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder” Gene Lees on the liner notes, also describes the whole atmosphere at the concert. The picture of the band with Tom Jobim playing acoustic guitar is actually incorrect, because he did not perform on that night according to credits. It is actually played by Kenny Burrell. This is the DG Van Gelder pressing
Great (!) selection (except one, in my humble opinion), thanks a lot. Here's another one: Nana Mouskouri & Quincy Jones in NY. Fantastic female vocal Jazz album. Even more, if you know, what kind of music Nana would do later on and become famous for in Europe. I'd replace Diana Krall (in my opinion overrated. Yes, she has a great sounding voice and is technically good, but she has no soul, no connection to the songs she's singing) with Nana. ;-)
Hey Mazzy, the balance is off on your most recent videos. Listen with headphones and you will hear. Please adjust your gear. Love your channel though! I have discovered many new artists through them. Thanks!
I have listened with headphones and the audio does change from left to right. What is happening is that since I am using the iPhone mic and not a remote mic, I'm getting blockage on one side or another when I hold up a record that blocks one side of the camera. I just switched to mono so maybe next time things will be equal in each channel.
Mazzy, is your hat headband too tight! No Nancy Wilson! Today, Tomorrow, Forever & A Touch of Today are fantastic albums. Check out her doing One Note Samba!! Go and stand in the corner with a large “D” on your fedora! That aside - keep up the good work. Regards from Brighton, England. Tintin
Bessie, Ella, Billie, Sarah, Dinah and Nina. That's the top tier. The discussion for next tier (probably starting with Betty Carter and Cassandra Wilson) begins after these six.
I apologize but I just cannot see how Diana Krall is good? It’s as though she is trying to hard to be a jazz singer, as if it does not come naturally and is she trying to be a female Harry Connick Jr. ?
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There ya go - Julie London. I used to have a lot of her albums. Loved those covers, especially Calendar Girl, a classic. Love that Peggy Lee Black Coffee cover too! Really enjoyed this video, and as always, learned some new, interesting and useful information. You do a great job with your videos!!!
Rosemary Clooney, Blue Rose, sweet Ellington groove!
I feel the need to mention that Aretha was also a fabulous jazz vocalist in her early days with Columbia before she became a soul singer at Atlantic. My favourite record of hers is "Laughing On The Outside", there is also a box set "Take A Look: Aretha Franklin Complete On Columbia" and a compilation titled "The Great American Songbook" that showcase that era of her career.
It was good to see Doris Day and Julie London honored as I think that they are often overlooked. I love the Peggy Lee reissue and will have to get that Sarah Vaughn. Great picks as always. --Randy
Really enjoyed this video. Thank you for honoring and sharing these wonderful female entertainers with us. Take care.
I recently bought Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown which is excellent. Don't forget Dinah Washington and Lena Horne too.
Just got to say how thankful I am to you for showing Young Gifted and Black.. wonderful, gorgeous, beautiful... a wonderful album that im lovin
One of the best live albums ever is Carmen McRae "Live at Sugar Hill San Francisco", 1964. Small club setting, superb jazz singing.
Another dent in my wallet! That Ella in Berlin record is utterly fabulous Mazzy! Thank you for making a great start to my weekend! Thanks as always.
Always so informative and KNOWLEDGEABLE! Thanks
Love the videos and your picks which I mostly agree with. However you left out one of my top five jazz singers, Miss Dinah Washington. Her work with trumpeter Clifford Brown is enough to put her at the top of any list.
One of the things I love so much about Ella Fitzgerald's Live in Berlin is how much fun she's clearly having. Wonderful record, as are all your other choices.
I have that Diana Krall "live in Paris" on DVD and I think it is absolutely awesome, one of my most treasured possessions
Thanks Mazzy. I really like that Ella Fitzgerald "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!" album. It goes nicely with the Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book series. Great covers! - Chris
Great video Norman I too love Getz/Gilberto and Norah Jones I just picked up Day Breaks which is brilliant. My favourite female jazz vocalist is Blossom Dearie I love all of her music but my favourite record of hers is Sings Comden And Green I think it's just beautiful. I love her voice and she was a phenomenol piano player.
Pretty much nailed it with one noteable exceptopn CASSANDRA WILSON!!
Great topic, this deserves a part II (cd maybe)-some outliers--Lurlean Hunter-"Night Life", Helen Grayco-"After Midnight", Lorez Alexandria, Dakota Staton, Helen Merrill and Blossom Dearie, granted some of these are more pop than jazz, but still great.
Norah Jones is absolutely phenomenal. Diana Krall is wonderful. Ella Fitzgerald is an icon. Pure Ella is my favorite. Enjoyed the video.
I love this video. I learned about recordings that I didn't know about and then there is Billie Holiday. You and I should be buds.
I too have that Nancy/Cannonball record. Her version of "The Masquerade Is Over" is sublime.
All great artists! Animals fans should hear Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone. The way I understand it, the song was written for her.
A couple of others.. Karin Krog from Norway and Jeanne Lee. Both wonderful vocalists. A one off special mention is 7 year old Waheeda Massey who sings Quiet Dawn on Archie Shepp's Attica Blues album. She's just great and finishes off the album with grace and style.
Your comments on Bessie Smith particularly resonate. All or Nothing at All is perhaps Holiday's finest recording ever IMHO (and I've listened to all of them), proving the fallacy of so-called 'experts' who insist that latter period Holiday doesn't rank with her vivacious, earlier self. And Black Coffee...nicely done! I'm of the opinion that unfortunately both Diana Krall and (S)nora Jones do not belong in this rarified atmosphere. I know absolutely nothing with regard to either of their particular life experiences, but neither could have undergone much of anything harrowing; at least, not on par with what Bessie, Billie, Ella or Anita had to go through. If they had, you'd hear it in their voice. But you don't. Hey, kudos for them. I once heard an interviewer ask Benny Goodman about Wynton Marsalis (the NEW LION, all the current rage at the time). I'll never forget his reply: Goodman remarked that Marsalis sounded 'undernourished'. The same description applies to Krall and Jones.
Excellent list😁👍🏾, honorable mention would be Ella Sings the Cole Porter Songbook🎶
Great video Maslov. That Live In Paris is one of my modern day faves.
The Audience with Betty Carter on Bet-Car, her own label
Great record ! I was in the audience back in December 1979. Truly a masterpiece.
Enjoyed seeing all these various singers being featured in a VC video...I’ve always loved the song “Black Coffee”, whether it’s by Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee or whoever - but I don’t have that particular album, unfortunately-nice video Mazzy..
Cool choice for celebrating IWM. Julie London did make a another jazzish record with the Bud Shank Quintet supporting her. Frances Faye is a singer I think you would dig if you don't already know her. Also HELLO, TIGER by Sallie Blair which has arrangements by Neal Hefti of batman theme fame. Joe Mondragon died from injuries from a car accident in TJ. Had he survived they would have had to amputate his arms. My father knew him as they were both musicians involved in the west coast jazz scene. He more or less coached Joni Mitchell on her cover of twisted as she had not sung jazz before.
Just Joan (1956) by Joan Regan (English), romantic chill jazz, gorgeous production. Pay up to $450 for the original vinyl (popsike). Anita O'Day is widely considered the greatest vocal stylist in jazz - her phrasing and timing lives on the edge - a virtuoso - I'm lucky enough to have some of her 1950's original vinyl. See her on youtube in glorious colour live at Newport 1958.
Also, Chris Connor (1956), the first jazz vocal LP on Atlantic with Zoot Sims, Helen Grayco After Midnight (1957) with Barney Kessel, and Freda Payne in 1964 before she went 'pop'. Also, the great Blossom Dearie, whose live solo vocal/piano performance of the notoriously difficult song Lush Life is better than the Coltrane/Hartmann version, imo.
so nice to hear anita o'day mentioned...she was so cool.....miss billie of couse is a given....my favorite album i have of hers is called 'songs and conversations'...it takes you right into the studio with her and the band and they figure out each note and tempo....remarkable piece...and of course one of my all time favorite album and singers....cassandra wilson 'coming forth by day'...exquisite....good stuff mazzy...peace always my friend...rocky
Lots of nice jazz vocalists there! I don’t have many female vocalists but enjoy them all, especially Julie London and Diana Krall.
Sarah is the queen. :) I have an early 80s Japanese reissue of that 1954 EmArcy debut with Clifford Brown, and a Pure Pleasure audiophile reissue of her Columbia debut. Nancy Wilson did another nice collaboration with George Shearing, "The Swingin's Mutual."
Great Video!!
What do you think of Cécile McLorin Salvant?
Thank you Mazzy. Really enjoyed your selection. Don't we need more Fletcher Henderson era reissues ???
So enjoyable, as always. Do you know the cover of "Black Coffee" by the Pointer Sisters? It's on their terrific early album, "That's a Plenty". Regular American and UK pressings are good, but there's a Speaker's Corner reissue that's a little more refined. I'm going to mention a couple of singers you may not be so familiar with: Jane Monheit and Karyn Allyson, especially the latter's album "Footprints". Finally a fabulous artist, but alas not on vinyl, but on well recorded Telarc CD, Jeanie Bryson. Her album of Peggy Lee covers is superb - "Some Cats Know". (She's the daughter of Dizzy Gillespie).
All excellent choices! For female vocalists over the past 30 years, I would add Cassandra Wilson - several of her Blue Note releases have been reissued on vinyl by Pure Pleasure.
Black Coffee is one that I’m always on the lookout for. They’re usually beat.
Got my Fluance player set up and got my Norah Jones box of records ready to play. Sweet!
Randy Crawford, earlier work , also check out Angela Bofill on the Johnny Carson show !
Love Nancy Wilson. Something Wonderful is as solid as it gets.
My favourite current singer is Lauren Desberg. Her version of Herbie’s “Keep Running To Me” is fantastic. A photographer too! As far as I know Airto & Flora are still “happily” married. 💍
One from north of the border... Holly Cole, "temptation", is a double LP of Tom Waits covers in a very jazzy style that Mazzy would like.
The Lady in Satin lp is upbeat?
The latest incarnation of that album comes with CD!
Great record... love your collection.... amazing..
I must have been that same tour of Airto & Flora that I saw at The Bottom Line. A girl I was dating at the time took me. Didn't know much about her then, but have been a fan ever since.
Some other great artists Kelley Smith, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne and must be some others, oh Ma Rainey, Big Mama Thorton. Maybe Ill do a video on this too !
nice video norman ,, some good pointers ,, only recently started listening to jazz ,, love the femail singers ,, recently started listening to melody gardot but i guess she is not really classed as jazz ? ,, but still she has a lovely voice , very laid back though ::)))
Great picks ! ......Mahalia Jackson maybe not Jazz ? But my favorite female singer 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Black Coffee is a great album, especially if you skip "I've Got You Under My Skin".
Great couple of videos on the ladies . How about a girl garage band video!
A women in punk and new wave is next. 💃🎸
Sorry! Just rewatched. She was mentioned!
Loved the video content, although the audio was peculiar. It was Mono-ish with the majority of your voice being in the right channel. I don’t typically notice this in your videos!?
Peggy Lee was smoky cool bluesy. Black Coffee such a great cover. Still have original mono of Black Coffee from back when you could pick those up here pristine for pocket money. Lee's follow-up album too, with 'Close Your Eyes' on it, terrifically bluesy. After much flaffing about I decided Sarah Vaughan was best vocalist and not Ella Fitzgerald after all - - unduly impressed early on by Ella's awesome octave range - - and Sinatra did think Ella Fitzgerald was America's greatest vocalist on any level. But Sassy had more better blues and more authentic scat-singing. Ella's scat-singing sounds like a rampage through the octaves to demonstrate her range, but Sassy wasn't out to prove anything, closer to Billie Holiday's listen-and-like-it-or-get-lost. Then I decided Cleo Laine was the huskiest best jazz vocalist of all, and not just cos she kissed me when John Dankworth wasn't looking. Then I decided Billie Holiday was the greatest vocalist after all, and not just cos she punched out two guys who spilled beer on her furs that time in NY. Jazz had far more great female vocalists than male. Not something you could say about rock or folk. So why is that? why jazz? Annie Ross's 'Twisted,' still the best jazz song I know - - those atonal twists chasing fast whimsical lyrics up and down New York zigzag fire escapes (well that's what it sounds like) would so have suited 1950s UPA Cartoons. UPA did classic 'Tell Tale Heart' cartoon spoken by James Mason - - forget about lowbrow art forms, that 10-minute masterpiece measures up to anything in any form from the '50s in or out the Louvre. UPA could have really given 'Twisted' lyrics the runaround with oblique angles and expressionist interior/exteriors and asymmetry and scatty facial expressions for Annie Ross - - what a cartoon monument that would have been. I SEE it, skewed angles and all, every time I hear Annie Ross sing it, and it doesn't even exist. Say, maybe I better find an analyst.
I'll take Getz Au Go Go (which features Astrud Gilberto on most of the songs) over Getz Gilberto any day! - Russ
Yeah I should pulled that one instead. So good.
Agree. As a Brazilian bossa nova collector, I do agree that Getz au gogo is phenomenal. great performance and recording
@@fts81 I read a comment a few months ago where someone said that it was actually not a live recording. Do you know any truth to that?
@@cahabatunes380 just opened my gatefold, it clearly says
“Recorded at Cafe Au Go-go, Greenwich Village, NYC, august 19, 1964
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder”
Gene Lees on the liner notes, also describes the whole atmosphere at the concert. The picture of the band with Tom Jobim playing acoustic guitar is actually incorrect, because he did not perform on that night according to credits. It is actually played by Kenny Burrell.
This is the DG Van Gelder pressing
Great (!) selection (except one, in my humble opinion), thanks a lot. Here's another one: Nana Mouskouri & Quincy Jones in NY. Fantastic female vocal Jazz album. Even more, if you know, what kind of music Nana would do later on and become famous for in Europe. I'd replace Diana Krall (in my opinion overrated. Yes, she has a great sounding voice and is technically good, but she has no soul, no connection to the songs she's singing) with Nana. ;-)
Lovely stuff, please could you try to improve your audio Mazzy, it's very quiet.
how many hours a day do you listen to music?
37
Later Joni Mitchell perhaps
Anything Bev Kelly
Clap Hands is at its best in the hands of Streisand, Cry Me A River as well.
Hey Mazzy, the balance is off on your most recent videos. Listen with headphones and you will hear. Please adjust your gear. Love your channel though! I have discovered many new artists through them. Thanks!
I have listened with headphones and the audio does change from left to right. What is happening is that since I am using the iPhone mic and not a remote mic, I'm getting blockage on one side or another when I hold up a record that blocks one side of the camera. I just switched to mono so maybe next time things will be equal in each channel.
Father of Gregory Hines???..
Mazzy, is your hat headband too tight! No Nancy Wilson! Today, Tomorrow, Forever & A Touch of Today are fantastic albums. Check out her doing One Note Samba!! Go and stand in the corner with a large “D” on your fedora! That aside - keep up the good work. Regards from Brighton, England. Tintin
Bessie, Ella, Billie, Sarah, Dinah and Nina. That's the top tier. The discussion for next tier (probably starting with Betty Carter and Cassandra Wilson) begins after these six.
Pick up Dee Dee Bridgwater - Afro Blue. Thank me later.
Great LP! Unfortunately, it was only released in Japan, so the vinyl is expensive. It was reissued digitally though, and I got it on Amazon.
@@afrose71 I just bought the UK reissue on wax for 20 bucks.
@@Localbandography Nice, just looked it up. Didn't know it was reissued last year. How does it sound? I've never heard of Mr. Bongo or Trio Records.
I apologize but I just cannot see how Diana Krall is good? It’s as though she is trying to hard to be a jazz singer, as if it does not come naturally and is she trying to be a female Harry Connick Jr. ?
Your video audio is extremely unbalanced. Not sure if you noticed? I listen via headphones and it's very noticeable. Just trying to help.
Oh come off it. Stop trying to pass off these bland white pop singers as jazz/blues singers.