May 11, 2009

Week 31:: Sing, Sing, Sing

After 30 consecutive weeks of caging the beast that is vocal jazz, it finally managed to burst forth. For those of you still reeling from last week's 12-minute "Eye of the Hurricane" rollercoaster, I assure you this will be a much more soothing, lyrical, experience.

It's easy going, extremely popular, and yet still artistically valid - It's Vocal Jazz!

Another cross-section rather than close focus, here's an hour of vocal jazz spanning the chronology with some well known, and slightly more obscure, numbers by the big names of the genre.

Enjoy!

Audio

Playlist
  1. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Moanin'
  2. Billie Holliday - My Man
  3. Mildred Bailey - Doin' the Uptown Lowdown
  4. Lena Horne/Duke Ellington - Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues
  5. Maxine Sullivan - Loch Lomond
  6. Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong - Pennies from Heaven
  7. Nat King Cole - It's Only a Paper Moon
  8. Sarah Vaughan - Mean to Me
  9. Dinah Washington - I Could Write a Book
  10. Ella Fitzgerald - Goody, Goody
  11. Carmen McRae - Bye Bye Blackbird
  12. Anita O'Day - We'll Be Together
  13. Dakota Stanton - The Late, Late Show
  14. Diana Krall - Exactly Like You
  15. Erin Bode - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You
::WSRP:: A Voice for the Voiceless; Face for the Faceless; Hipness for the Hipless.

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