Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Peggy Lee
Sarah Vaughan
Julie London
I woke up this morning craving for some jazz, so I let Music create a playlist based on Ella Fitzgerald. There they were: all the “diosas del jazz”: For the Parnassus, Ella’s I love Paris, Billie Holiday with The very thought of you, the perennial take of Sarah Vaughan on Gershwin’s Summertime, Peggy Lee with Fever, Julie London’s Blue Moon and My funny Valentine… and they kept going… all the classics!
There were some comparatively new stars too, like Diana Krall (that, against the marketing efforts to sell her music as a sexy product, is above all an excellent singer and pianist).
I was in Jazz Heaven. Then, I remembered some time ago watching on Youtube a live performance of Marisa Monte’s mean-tempered version of Cry me a River. It was still there, as part of a concert by the spectacular master of guitar Raphael Rabello:
Watching it, I wandered to other versions of that great song that I first knew about years ago from Krall’s rendition recorded live in Paris. This one is in YouTube too, produced in a way that took me to the front row of that concert:
From there, I jumped to the original version by Julie London, back on the mid-fifties. I found a video recorded ten years later as a testimony to her singing perfection:
With that, I satisfied my hunger for today. This body of mine can’t ask or resist more.
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Short update:
It is never to late to learn about great singers. Check out for Melody Gardot (http://melodygardot.co.uk/). If, like me (shame, shame, shame on me!), you didn’t hear her before, you are missing a talented jazz singer with a noir, silky tone in her voice that can also be very playful. She is another unique talent of this twenty-something to forty-something years old interesting singers that took the torch from previous generations. Listening to her music is a delightful experience.
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