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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · 1d ago
Afro Blue is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. The record was released in Japan in 1974, when she was 23, via Trio Records label.[4] The album was recorded in Tokyo with a quintet of musicians including brothers Ron and Cecil Bridgwater. - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug7EiTrr7zE&list=OLAK5uy_mqtJToScTmx40Z8iXcndP_hAGCJfc3fPg #DeeDeeBridgewater #VocalJazz #Music #AfroBlue #RolandHanna #Jazz
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 06, 2026
Comme à la radio is the fourth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, recorded with Areski Belkacem (in their first collaboration) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It was released in 1969 on the Saravah label after a series of concerts in 1969. It is Fontaine's most famous album, and is known outside of France on the 1990s alt-rock scene, thanks to laudatory comments from Beck and Sonic Youth The album received the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles Cros that same year. The single "Comme à la radio" has been covered by Japanese artist Jun Togawa in 2000 - Wikipedia I picked this up in a bargain bin in the 80s, knowing the Art Ensemble but not Brigitte Fontaine. Taking a chance was rewarded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmpW0soAwok&list=RDFmpW0soAwok&start_radio=1 #BrigetteFontaine #ArtEnsembleofChcago #Areski #Jazz #VocalJazz #Music #FrenchMusic #Chanson #ChamberJazz
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 06, 2026
A Natural Woman is a 1969 album by Peggy Lee. It was arranged and conducted by Bobby Bryant and Mike Melvoin. John Engstead took the cover photograph. Review by John Bush A Natural Woman was her most successful fusion yet, thanks to the work of arrangers/conductors/upstarts Mike Melvoin and Bobby Bryant (neither of whom were true youngsters, though Melvoin had apparently gleaned much from session work with the Beach Boys, Curt Boettcher, and Judy Collins)...Lee does perform a superb version of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" (Newman actually arranged "Is That All There Is?"), and utterly transforms the one standard from an earlier era, Billie Holiday's classic "Don't Explain.".. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxF7V56mmxc&list=RDBxF7V56mmxc&start_radio=1 #PeggyLee #RandyNewman #60sPop #Soul #VocalJazz #BobbyBryant #MikeMelvoin #FemaleSinger #Music
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 04, 2026
Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by Joe Williams with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label. Review by Scott Yanow Accompanied by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, the singer is heard at the peak of his powers. The big band primarily functions as an ensemble (Snooky Young gets off some good blasts on "Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning"), but the inventive Thad Jones arrangements ensure that his illustrious sidemen have plenty to play. Many of the selections (half of which have been in the singer's repertoire ever since) are given definitive treatment on this set (particularly a humorous "Evil Man Blues," "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You," and "Smack Dab in the Middle"), and Williams scats at his best on "It Don't Mean a Thing." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNn4JqOZ8A&list=OLAK5uy_mQWlXcOTk-X3S6U3aOctsTXxNI9BPV81M #JoeWilliams #ThadJones #MelLewis #BigBand #Jazz #VocalJazz #Music #SoildState #BlueNote
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 26, 2026
Now! Hear! by Andy And The Bey Sisters, released on Prestige in 1964 Review by Michael G. Nastos Expressive vocalists hook up with Jerome Richardson (sax and flute), Kenny Burrell (guitar) for expansive treatments of jazz. I love that the first lines of the liner notes for this LP from 1964 by Joel Dorn are "We live in the age of the computer,. We have been area codes, zip coded and IBMed to the nth degree" https://ia600401.us.archive.org/21/items/cd_andy-bey-and-the-bey-sisters_andy-bey-and-the-bey-sisters/cd_andy-bey-and-the-bey-sisters_andy-bey-and-the-bey-sisters.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKt8dRdb5-4&list=RDPKt8dRdb5-4&start_radio=1 #AndyBey #AndyBeyandtheBeySisters #SalomeBey #VocalJazz #Jazz #Music #PrestigeRecords #JeromeRichardson #KennyBurrell
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 26, 2026
Andy And The Bey Sisters by Andy And The Bey Sisters, released on RCA Victor in 1961. Produced by Chet Atkins! Andrew Wideman Bey Jr. (October 28, 1939 – April 26, 2025) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Bey had a wide vocal range, with a four-octave baritone voice. He worked on the 1959/1960 television show Startime with Connie Francis, and sang for Louis Jordan. At age 17, he formed a trio with his siblings Salome Bey and Geraldine Bey (de Haas) called Andy and the Bey Sisters. The trio went on a 16-month tour of Europe. The jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost includes footage of Bey and his sisters delighting a Parisian audience... - Wikipedia "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet-flowing breast;" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKcjwqo2Pwo&list=RDYKcjwqo2Pwo&start_radio=1 #AndyBey #AndyBeyandtheBeySisters #VocalJazz #ChetAktins #Jazz #VocalJazz #Trees #Music
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 13, 2026
How Do You Say I Don't Love You Anymore was Freda Payne's second American album (following a release in Sweden with Don Gardner), released May 28, 1966. Although regarded primarily as a jazz album, there are also several covers of pop songs featured, including the Beatles' hit "Yesterday," "Let It Be Me," the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "Feeling Good," and "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)." - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzvhooO8VM0&list=PLLdI8LhF-55cJKNGhxeJxJoQewNBE4MBE&index=1 #FredaPayne #Jazz #Soul #Music #Covers #FemaleSinger #VocalJazz
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 12, 2026
2 Shows Nightly is a 1968 live album by Peggy Lee. At Lee's request, this album was abruptly withdrawn from circulation almost immediately after its release in 1968. - Wikipedia Not sure why, as it's a great live LP from the veteran singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autYcnBymA8&list=PLDO5QwFiOm96tNWyHK4G0TgRIsKq6mRc_&index=1 #PeggyLee #VocalJazz #Music #Jazz #LiveLP #FemaleSingers
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 11, 2026
Where Are You Going is a 1973 album by Shirley Horn Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist.[1] She collaborated with many jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others. She was most noted for her ability to accompany herself with nearly incomparable independence and ability on the piano while singing, something described by arranger Johnny Mandel as "like having two heads", and for her rich, lush voice, a smoky contralto, which was described by noted producer and arranger Quincy Jones as "like clothing, as she seduces you with her voice" - Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP6NWNfAFbQ&list=RDgP6NWNfAFbQ&start_radio=1 #ShirleyHorn #VocalJazz #Jazz #Music #JazzPiano
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@ratatosk@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026
A Good Git-Together is a 1959 studio album by Jon Hendricks. It was Hendricks' first solo album, and featured Cannonball Adderley and Wes Montgomery. - Wikipedia A Good Git-Together Review by Scott Yanow On various tracks, Jon Hendricks' first album as a leader, released in 1959, features such major sidemen as altoist Pony Poindexter, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and both Nat and Cannonball Adderley. Hendricks -- who was riding high in Lambert, Hendricks & Ross at the time -- is in superb form on such numbers as "I'm Gonna Shout (Everything Started in the House of the Lord)," a couple of songs that Hendricks had written for Louis Jordan, Randy Weston's "Pretty Strange," "Social Call," and the jubilant "A Good Git-Together." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKUjS1leaqk&list=PLBJenJIJrq0xML6GSgIbsrp5rT6FjGyS8&index=5 #JonHendricks #VocalJazz #Jazz #Music #Randyweston #PacificJazz #NatAdderley #CannonballAdderley – #PonyPoindexter #WesMontgomery
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