looking for great vocalists

[markitos]

Im very new to jazz, and I was wondering if anyone colud help me with a list of female vocalists singing against a stand up bass

thank you very much
mark

[music_is_pornography]

I am actually curious as well.
The area of jazz that has been hardest for me to penetrate is vocal jazz. I have heard some that I really don't like, and some (more modern or recent I guess) that I was pretty impressed with.

[Tenorman]

Julie London is normally a Big Band singer, but on "In Person At The Americana, she does one track (from memory "Bye Bye Blackbird") with Bass.
The album is a mixed bag, but there are a few tracks with JL far removed from her usual work doing Jazz in a near Anita O'Day style

But then I like Julie London, and anything she does is OK by me


PS Only post on one thread at a time, otherwise your answers will get split as is already happening

[Saundra Hummer]

Hi Tenorman,
Here is a good album, it has various artists, and it is by Verve, it has Billy Holiday, Chet Baker, Little Jimmy Scott, Peggy Lee, Beverly Kenney, Frank Di??? can't read my own writing, on this one, so then there is Shirley Horn, Helen Merril, Arthur Prysock, Dinah Washington, Billy Eckstine, Ella, and Mel Torme. it is called When Love Goes Wrong.

Joe Williams on Verve with Count Basie, Alright you Wink, Okay, Blue Note Definative Series 5 ? Not sure about the 5. He is a favorite of mine and I would love to get this album, never tire of him singing these songs.

Curtis Stigers.

Dennis Rowland on Concord Jazz in a "Tribute to Miles."

Carol Sloane, on The Songs Sinatra Sang. 1996, on Concord Jazz.

Ernie Andrews on HighNote,

Eddie Jefferson, 1958 on Evidence, Inner City.

Charles Brown, blues and Jazz "One More For the Road, label, Alligators & Blue Side.

Joe Del Francesco 2001 Reliease, re release, One Mint Julip etc, with Ray Brown.

Joni Mitchell with Herbie Hancock sings Gershwins World

Grady Tate 1999 The Best is yet to come on the album "Feeling Free, label Pow Wow.


Maybe these can be of help, of course there are the more well known singers and you wouldn't need my relisting them once more. A lot of them are on the one album that I listed anyway.

I don't know how good some these singers song books are, maybe great, maybe not, haven't heard a whole lot on some of them lately, but remember a few from back when and I always liked their singing, and style. It's just that when you compare a lot of singers to Billie, Dinah, Ella, Sarah, Mel, Williams, etc, it's hard to say they are up there in that class of singers. Some are pretty good though.

[Paul Secor]

There's no better place to start than with Billie Holiday - early, mid, or late.

You might also try Sheila Jordan: Portrait of Sheila (BN) or Sheila Jordan: Sheila (Steeplechase), the latter recorded with only bass accompaniment.

[Saundra Hummer]

markitos, I don't know how I did this, but somehow thought that this was a thread looking for just singers and I gave you everyone, not female singer with a "stand up bass." Sorry about the confusion on my part, and as far as what it is that you are looking for, I just don't know who it might be with that type of group. I'm sure that there are people here on the board that will though.

I know Ray Brown played for vocalists and his having been married to Ella Fitzgerald at one time, there must be recordings with him backing her up with a small group somewhere.

Chris Conners, Julie Christi, Anita O'Day, Julie London, Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington, are some of the more familiar names that might be in a group like you are looking for.

By the way, where are you in Mexico? We had thought about moving down there along the coast at one time.

[Tenorman]

Markitos: Don't know whether you are still watching or not, but here is another suggestion.

All the shops that do Jazz in the UK (and I have no reason to doubt, elsewhere) have compilation albums going quite cheaply. There are quite a few featuring only female singers. One that comes to mind is "The Ladies Sing the Blues" a double CD. I don't have it but I did recommend it to a friend who, like you, was trying to get in to female singers