[Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers

[Patrick Cooke]

>>> 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?<<<
     I'm into pre-war music too (I'm 75), but I'm not locked into it to the
exclusion of everything else.  I vote for Cleo, Sarah, Anita O'Day, and all
the other creative ones.
   Pat Cooke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Davis" <tony at tony-davis.co.uk>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:03 AM
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
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> Aston, Oxfordshire, UK
>
>
>
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