Jazz Singers Flashcards

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Albums: Joe Williams and Count Basie

Joe Williams and the Thad Jones Mel Lewis orchestra

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Joe Williams

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Albums: Dukes of Dixieland

Ella And Louis

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Louie Armstrong

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Albums: Epiphany

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Chaka Khan

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Albums: I can’t start it

Duets (Carmen McRae)

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Betty Carter

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Albums: The great

(song) The ballad of Thelonious Monk

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Carmen McRae

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Albums: Diane Schaur with the Count Basie orchestra

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Diane Schaur

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Albums: For Ella

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Patti Austin

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Albums: Close enough for love

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Shirley Horn

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Albums: Something cool, Big Band Specials,

(song) You came a long way from St. Louis

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June Christy

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Albums: Mink jazz, Blues cross country

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Peggy Lee

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Albums: Swings coleport with billy may

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Anita O’day

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Albums: live at yoshi’s

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

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Albums: The swinging quintet

Info: had retired multiple times, played with George shering

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Nancy Wilson

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Albums: Velvet and Brass

Info: velvet fog
Famous for “chestnuts roasting over an open fire”

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Mel Torme

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Albums: Live in Tokyo, Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie

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Sarah Vaughan

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Nick name was “Sassy”

Female singer for Billy Ecksteine

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Sarah Vaughan

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Albums: “No cover, no minimum”

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Billy Ecksteine

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Father of jazz singing
First one to skat sing
Nick name was “pops” and/or “sachmo

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Louie Armstrong

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Albums: Tony Bennett and Bill Evans

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Tony Bennett

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Albums: Lady sings the blues

(song) Good morning heart ache
(song) Strange fruit

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Billie Holiday

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Albums: Portrait of Chris, Twos company

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Chris Connor

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Didn't skat
Recompose songs
Great interpreter 
Nick name was lady day
Lady sings the blues(movie)
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Billie Holiday

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Mark Murphy Sings

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Mark Murphy

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Sinatra at the sands

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Frank Sinatra

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Albums: Unforgettable, ask a woman who knows

Info: Daughter of nat king cole
Rhythm and blues singer

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Natalie Cole

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Albums: Ella in Berlin, Mack the Knife

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Ella Fitzgerald

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Albums: Sorcerer, Right on my way home, “Too much coffee, man”

Info: sang with miles

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Bob Dorough

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Albums: Alice in wonderland

(song) Your molecular structure
(song) 7th sun

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Mose Allison

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Albums: One bad habit, Passion fruit

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Michael Franks

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Albums: This time it’s love

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Kurt Elling

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Didn’t use other musicians with him

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Bobby McFaren

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Played with Herbie, Diz, on “and the melody lingers on”(a night in Tunisia)

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Chaka Khan

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Albums: Anita O’day sings the most (with Oscar Peterson trio)

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Anita O’day

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Albums: Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly,

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Nancy Wilson

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Info: played with Diz, Parker, and Gene

Nick name was Mr. B

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Billy Ecksteine

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Albums: Sing a Song of Basie

Info: formed by John Hendrix

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Lamber Hendrix and Ross

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Albums: Jazz Sebastian Bach

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The Swingles Singers

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Used the trombone section form the Kenton big band for their sound

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The four freshman

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Albums: All Over the Place

Info: Gene Puerling, don shelling,

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The Highlows

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The new band of the Highlows

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The singers unlimited

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Albums: Vocalees

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The Manhattan Transfer

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Albums: Vamos

Info: religious group, took the songs gene Puerling wrote and added soul to it.

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Take 6

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Albums: Hearts if Fire

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The New York Voices

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Albums: the best tour souvenir album

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The real group