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  • Rate your favorite jazz vocalists!

    My list:

    1. Sarah Vaughan
    2. Billie Holiday
    3. Ella Fitzgerald
    4. Nat King Cole
    5. Can't choose between Joe Williams and Nina Simone

    *this is a list of my favorites, not of who I think is the best (there is a difference)

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  • "Louis Armstrong"
    "Peggy Lee"
    "Kay Starr"
    "Sarah Vaughan"
    "Dinah Washington"
    "Monica Zetterlund"
    "Ella Fitzgerald"
    "Nina Simone"

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    • namuel said...
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    • 9 Jan 2009, 22:11

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  • Ella Fitzgerald
    Carmen McRae
    Sarah Vaughan
    Billie Holiday
    Hmmm... toss up between Anita O'Day and Nancy Wilson next...

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  • Nina Simone
    June Christy
    Louis Armstrong
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Nat King Cole
    Frank Sinatra
    Louis Jordan
    Harry Connick Jr.
    Sarah Vaughan
    Cab Calloway
    Dinah Washington

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    • maaritv said...
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    • 9 Feb 2009, 15:57
    Carmen McRae
    Blossom Dearie
    Dinah Washington
    Susannah McCorkle
    Nina Simone
    Peggy Lee

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  • I tend to listen to a lot more female jazz singers than male.

    1. Sarah Vaughan
    2. Billie Holiday
    3. Abbey Lincoln
    4. Julie London
    5. Nina Simone
    6. Nat King Cole
    7. Diana Krall
    8. Ella Fitzgerald
    9. Dinah Washington,
    10. a tossup between Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carmen McRae, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee...

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  • I can tell that i love calssics

    1-Nat King Cole
    2-: johnny Mercer
    3-Louis Armstrong
    4-Peggy Lee
    5-Shiley Bassey
    6-Dinah Washington
    7-Natalie Cole



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  • rate top Jazz vocalists...

    Greetings,

    Female:
    B. Holiday for slow tempo and final chords that punctuate her songs
    E. Fitzgerald had vocal dexterity par none

    Male:
    J. Hartman performed the classic "Lush Life"
    E. Jefferson was 'out there'

    Group:
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross well-known but still needs more accolades


    Vocalist/Iinstrumentalist
    N. Simone
    C. Baker
    H. Connick, Jr

    Performance you should hear:
    Horace Silver's album "Silver 'n Voices" has rich-textured Jazz harmony Vocal Choir as only Silver could produce. It is hard to find, but I have it available if need be.

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  • 1. Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross
    2. Tony Bennett
    3. Diane Reeves
    4. Mark Murphy
    5. Peggy Lee
    6. Bob Dorough

    Arben

    "Life is a melody played by a natural band. No sense in goofin' up the tempo."
    Jon Hendricks lyrics for Duke Ellington's "In A Mellow Tone"
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  • my favorite jazz vocalists

    1. Anita O'Day
    2. Nina Simone
    3. Nat King Cole
    4. Abbey Lincoln
    5. Louis Armstrong
    6. Billie Holiday
    7. Rosemary Clooney
    8. Ella Fitzgerald
    9. Jimmy Scott
    10. Josephine Baker

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