13 Mar 2021

10 great female jazz singers

From Inside Out, 5:01 pm on 13 March 2021
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Nick checks out ten great female jazz singers, from Ella Fitzgerald to NZ's Jennine Bailey.

 

 

MUSIC DETAILS:

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Track:

Song:

Composer:

Album

Label:

Duration:

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

 

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

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