Article: Favorite Female Vocalists

[bluesman]

Great stuff! I love them all.  I’d add two of my favorites: Cyrille Aimée and Nancy Wilson. Both voices are pure as a newborn baby, and both artists are masters of their instruments. They’re truly unique - once you hear them, you know it when you hear them again.

 

Another fascinating female vocalist is Patty Cathcart. Her recordings with her husband Tuck Andress (dba Tuck and Patty) are wonderful music and excellent reference and demo source material.  Tuck is an amazing guitarist whose playing, sound, and repertoire are all stellar both solo and backing his wife.

[bluesman]

.....and I almost forgot Dee Dee Bridgewater!  I took my wife to hear Thad & Mel at the Village Vanguard for our anniversary (after dinner at Le Chanteclair - I was smart enough even in 1973 to know that I couldn’t get away with jazz as the sole celebration of our anniversary...).  During the show, Cecil Bridgewater (one of the trumpeters in the band, which was then made up of the top NY jazz & studio guys including several from the Tonight Show band) walked up to the mic and introduced his wife Dee Dee as the band’s new vocalist - and she was spectacular! 
 

She’s even more so now.

[bluesman]

On 11/2/2019 at 12:26 PM, semente said:

Reminds me of one of the two reasons that made me give up shows: rubbish music and insultingly loud SPLs.

 

 

Like WOW, Dobie!  Calling Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diana Krall, and Cecile McLorin Salvant "rubbish music" and "insultingly loud" reflects a level of criticism never before experienced.  I guess there's room for all of us on the planet, but this borders on the absurd.