[Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

Before we take any vote now - let me get accross exactly what I meant before
I'm branded prejudiced or a bigot.
Maybe I was sweeping, but this is what I meant:

I didn't say all pre-war jazz fans don't like singing and only like
instrumentals.
In pre-war Jazz (as opposed to Crooners, dance music, semi-jazzbig band
music), I would think the main focus for most of us is the instruments, as
opposed to singers.
I said an occasional vocal is fine and I enjoy Louis, Jelly and Fats but the
main interest is instrumental.




> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tony Davis [SMTP:tony at tony-davis.co.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:03 PM
> To:	DJML
> Subject:	Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers
> 
> Brian Goggin wrote:
> 
> > To be honest I'm not into jazz singers and I would think most of us who
> are
> > into the pre-war music wouldn't be either.
> 
> Can't argue with personal taste, but the second half of that statement is
> pretty sweeping - can we have a vote?
> 
> > However I do like Louis Armstrong's, Jelly Roll Morton's and Fats
> Waller's
> > singing and don't mind a little singing on record.
> > While an occasional vocal is ok, it's still the instruments that hold
> the
> > most interest.
> 
> But the best singers use their voice as an instrument - and I don't mean
> that
> awful scat stuff that Ella used to do which went down so well with
> audiences
> but always sounded horribly artificial to me.  I'm thinking of Billie
> Holiday,
> Sarah Vaughan, Lee Wiley, to name only three.  And of course Louis
> Armstrong
> was a prime example of this - he sang exactly the way he played his horn.
> 
> --
> Tony Davis
> Trumpet/Cornet
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> Aston, Oxfordshire, UK
> 
> 
> 
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