In searching around for lady singers, diferent genres came up and it became apparent … firstly that it probably wasn’t the other chaps’s cuppa cha, esp. if bluesy … but a few genres I strayed into were certainly not mine.
Blended Big Band of the 40s was worst … where individuality was dead and it was all massed band cacophony. I know Glenn Miller did feature cornet solos etc. but I want to hear all the instruments one by one please, as in the 20s. All right, no can do? Then give me a powerful chantoosie belting it out but please, please, focus on the individual, not on the blended soup sound or the band leader … I’m not interested in him, except in his solo he plays during the song.
Enjoyed listening to Nina Simone, my favourite of the three even though I always like Annette. I that case it’s 3,2,1 for me. Ada a little, I don’t know, maybe too strident for me.
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JH: My order of tracks too.
What an excellent threesome, Hob old boy.
As for the big bands of the 30s – yeah, on the whole not my taste. But if you want to hear an excellent big band and in the finest of fettle listen to Goodman’s Carnegie Hall concert of 1938. It gets me whirling round the room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVDu4-mVO4
I think this may be a better version of the Goodman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A&list=PLrgWFHgA0hq2nfuDRXZRZuzsskBoVfSqs
Ah, the best yet? What the devil, shop around yourself.
Sod it; forgot the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8B2jfDXIcc&list=PLO6zBTEo45QjJzJ-Dq44w6m2Mlyvk4ru5&index=4
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JH: There we go.