[Dixielandjazz] Jazz singers

[Harry Callaghan]

Man, these names keep coming out of the woodwork here.
I had completely forgotten about her

Coupla days ago it was Judi K with Franz Jackson and now Mart brings up
Betty Carter.

I've got an album Betty recorded don't know how many years ago with Carmen
McRae.

Now, I've got one...........who remembers Bobby Breen?

Tides
HC
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Martin D. McKay <macjazz at comcast.net>wrote:

> (Serious) question for the group
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> Is there a difference between singing jazz and being a jazz singer?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Mart
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> Martin D. McKay (Designated Listener)
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