[Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

For the 3rd time - what I meant was that I though the pre-war jazz fans
amongst us tend to got for instrumental stuff.
Maybe I phrased it badly.
I didn't mean they hate singers.
I didn't slam singers and I never said I exclude everything else. 
I didn't say they weren't creative. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Patrick Cooke [SMTP:patcooke at cox.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:16 PM
> To:	Tony Davis; DJML
> Subject:	Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers
> 
> >>> 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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> >
> >
> >
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