I posted this in one of the threads I posted the link to above 6 days ago.

Vocalists

Billie Holiday - pretty much everything she did is essential from my point of view but I would pick up the Decca, Commodore and Columbia sets.

Ella Fitzgerald - I would go with Complete Ella in Berlin, Pure Ella, any of the Songbook recordings, the complete Ella and Louis Armstrong.


Sarah Vaughn - her Emarcy recordings especially Sarah Vaughn with Clifford Brown, After Hours, Copacabana, In the Land of Hi-Fi, Sassy Swings the Tivoli.

one of my favourite's

Gee, i was hoping for 5 pages of recomandations not fights, but was fun to read it, esp cos it's bloody hard to lable jazz..........the music without frontiers. heck, i even say Annie Lennox has a little bit of jazz ...

So, anyone into John Surman, Chick Corea, Trio Esbjorn Svensson?

I'm with you. It's stuffy in here...Somebody open a window ! All this stiffness and protocol is so unnecessary and the undertone that unless one is educated, one can't possibly appreciate jazz is just hogwash. It makes everyone walk on tippy toes which is antithetical to the spirit of this music. It's about loosening up!..letting your musical pallette be panoramic! This is just air sculpture, Charley...cats pushing air around in different directions. This ain't trigonometry,baby...IT'S JAZZ!!!

You may have to dig for 'em,but anything you can get by Bobby Scott. He was a child prodigy,touring with veterans like Krupa before he was 15. Composer of "A Taste of Honey" & "He Ain't Heavy." He had a certain touch on piano that was so unique Quincy Jones would fly him in to get the "Bobby Scott" feel on one track for Paul Simon's "Rymin' Simon." ("Something So Right") And he was a REAL colorful charecter,a lover of people regardless of their station, and the only real genius I ever knew. "For Sentimental Reasons" was the last album he did and probably the easiest to find.

you're totally right algernon, that's why I left a jazzforum, because it's full of those creeps. I hate them. I listent o jazz, because I like it, I may not know as much as most jazzlisteners do, but I don't care, to me it's all about the music.

Thanks for the kind words! Yeah,there's a big difference between being a jazz LOVER and a SERIOUS JAZZ FAN and I'll take the former any day. The latter ride around like JAZZ POLICE trying to bust & humiliate people and the irony is they choke the life out of the very thing they claim to love. Keep swingin' sister!

Exactly, I too have problems with those guys acting like they're soooo intelligent because they listen to jazz. It's just music people! I'm with you Algeron and Stardust!

Yeah, Mr. G...I sensed you were a kindred spirit! The other day I was driving with my 5 year old niece. We had a Beatles c.d. goin' and she was shakin her head,groovin' with it. She knows nothing about the Beatles...I've heard & read everything there is on 'em...but at that moment,I realized that her appreciation of those sounds is surely purer than mine. When it comes to musical appreciation, we are all equals...all babies. It's not about categories and sub-categories and sniffing your nose at people cause they think Nora Jones is in the groove....or kickin' sand in somebody's face for digging "elevator music." It's about magical, child-like,unbridled wonderment ..unfettered emotion. Keep swingin', Gooz!

you just put our thoughts into words.

Me and mister gooze will keep on swingin'