[Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers

[Martin D. McKay]

(Serious) question for the group               

 

Is there a difference between singing jazz and being a jazz singer?

 

As a school person I've heard lots of kids play "jazz" solos that sounded
pretty jazzy but were things they had learned by rote etc. The kid(s)
couldn't play jazz or even in a jazzy manner on a regular basis.

 

I do think there have been singers who could do jazz.  Betty Carter sang
jazz at a level even a lot of jazzers couldn't comprehend, etc.

 

Did (Does) Pat Boone sing jazz where he had learned to sing a piece in a
given fashion or is/was Pat Boone a jazz singer or is there a difference?

 

Mart

 

Martin D. McKay (Designated Listener)