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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
Lots of excellent suggestions here. Totally agree that knowing at least some of the lyrics and the vocal version really helps with feel and phrasing. Also makes keeping your place in the tune easier.
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02-09-2020 04:43 PM
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"Anyone here familiar with Clarence 'C.' Sharpe? He was a beautiful alto player (and person), originally out of Philly."
of course, he's on Lee Morgan's 'Indeed' lp, he wound up doing a lot of busking in NY
"Hoagy's real masterpiece is Winter Moon---and it's a delight to hear him sing it)"
hmm, never heard of it
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Originally Posted by joelf
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If we're talking about composers who sang their own stuff, we have to mention Fats Waller.
Speaking of which, are there recordings of Cole Porter singing his classic songs???
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Jo Stafford.
Some say she's not really a jazz singer, but I disagree
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Someone above mentioned Mel Torme. His version of this is my favorite.
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and maybe my favorite singer period, Carmen McRae
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f you like Mel, this is a gem....
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If I got stuck on a deserted island I'd only need this one...
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02-09-2020, 07:19 PM #35joelf GuestOriginally Posted by MarkRhodes
In fact, if you read the interview with him in Max Wilk's highly recommended They're Playing Our Song, the success as a songwriter was something as an accident and afterthought. Arlen thought of himself as a blues singer...
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02-09-2020, 07:25 PM #36joelf GuestOriginally Posted by WILSON 1
Whatever Jonathan Schwartz's foibles and bad behavior may be, I'll always thank him for turning me on to Nancy on his onetime WNYC radio show. When I heard her sing Autumn Leaves/When October goes with the sparse accompaniment of (I think) piano and cello, the feeling was so overpowering I had to pull to the side of the road for fear of losing it and crashing the car---no BS...
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02-09-2020, 07:39 PM #37joelf GuestOriginally Posted by wintermoonWe did some of that busking, and a gig with a singer named Haze Laser (LOL---great guy, actually). We were tight buddies in the '80s---he and Tommy Turrentine were my main running buddies around Chelsea and hither and yon back then. (I finally paid tribute to their memories in Tommy & C.---which is being performed next Friday).
C Sharpe actually recorded more than the Indeed disc (he was 18, Morgan 17!). He was on an Archie Shepp LP (For Losers) with his lady China Lynn Perault; on Freddie Redd's Lonely City---and a bunch of others. He WAS pitifully under-recorded, but there's some live stuff online if you google 105 minutes with C. Sharpe. A long set, and that one captures his uniqueness and spirit more than the studio recordings.
He was the McCoy---honest and real, a true friend, and I'll miss him til the day I die...
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And, no one has mentioned the incomparable songstress/pianist: Shirley Horn? This would be my desert island music. Good playing . . . Marinero
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Originally Posted by joelf
HA LOL. I've got my GPS holder jammed into the single slot CD player in the car because I discovered that I can't listen to music and drive at the same time.
Ha,ha... I thought I was the only one.
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I'm not sure this was thought of as a standard before Peggy Lee sang it...
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Julie London's take of "Cry Me A River" is definitive but this take of "I'm In The Mood For Love" (also w Barney Kessel on guitar) is my favorite.
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02-10-2020, 10:02 PM #42joelf GuestOriginally Posted by WILSON 1
When I heard of her passing away so young (43), I felt exactly as I did when I heard Natalie Cole had died: like crying...
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02-10-2020, 10:09 PM #43joelf GuestOriginally Posted by MarkRhodes
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02-10-2020, 10:22 PM #44joelf GuestOriginally Posted by Fred Archtop
Is that her lyric on Waltz...or a Swedish Translation of Gene Lees's?
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02-10-2020, 10:29 PM #45joelf GuestOriginally Posted by joelf
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02-10-2020, 10:31 PM #46joelf Guest
Mark Rhodes:
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Originally Posted by joelf
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Originally Posted by Marinero
I recall her getting a lot of airplay at one point on the jazz station in...um, dang...don't remember for sure at this point if it was in Nashville or Seattle....
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02-11-2020, 09:04 AM #49joelf GuestOriginally Posted by wintermoon
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Question about All of Me / Ella Fitzgerald version
Today, 01:31 PM in The Songs