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Nick checks out ten great female jazz singers, from Ella Fitzgerald to NZ's Jennine Bailey.
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1 |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Love For Sale |
Cole Porter |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book |
Verve |
05:52 |
2 |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Lemon Drop |
Wallington |
Newport Jazz Festival Live At Carnegie Hall, July 5, 1973 |
Columbia |
05:01 |
3 |
Billie Holiday |
Yesterdays |
Kern / Harbach |
Billie Holiday |
Commodore |
03:23 |
4 |
Billie Holiday |
Blue Moon |
Rodgers / Hart |
Blue Moon |
Verve |
03:26 |
5 |
Sarah Vaughan |
Perdido |
Drake/Lengsfelder/Tizol |
Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan |
Roulette Records |
02:36 |
6 |
Sarah Vaughan |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |
Kern/Harbach |
No Count Sarah |
EmArcy |
03:52 |
7 |
Dianne Reeves |
Afro Blue |
Santamaria / Brown |
I Remember |
Blue Note |
04:49 |
8 |
Peggy Lee |
Fever |
Cooley / Blackwell |
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Capitol |
03:19 |
9 |
Cecile McLorin Salvant |
I Didn't Know What Time it Was |
Rodgers/Hart |
Womanchild |
Mack Avenue |
06:00 |
10 |
Cassandra Wilson |
St James Infirmary |
Mills |
Loverly |
Blue Note |
04:40 |
11 |
Betty Carter |
But Beautiful |
Van Heusen/Burke |
Out There |
Peacock |
03:58 |
12 |
Jennine Bailey |
You Go To My Head |
Coots / Gillespie |
You Go To My Head |
New Frontier |
05:21 |
13 |
Michelle Nicolle |
Azure |
Ellington / Mills |
A Flower is a Lovesome Thing |
ABC Classics |
06:41 |