# Female Jazz vocalists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048 "2005-10-20T07:15:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/41 "2005-10-21T12:33:39Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Owen Bradley produced the album. lang, like Lyle Lovett, started out as a country musician whose fan base wasn’t traditional country music fans, and she drifted pretty quickly towards jazz and standards. Listen to “Black Coffee,” “I’m Down to my Last Cigarette” and “Busy Being Blue” again and tell me there’s no jazz in it. There’s no jazz on it. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/42 "2005-10-21T15:05:09Z")
No love for Carmen McRae? ---
**Author:** ![Cynical\_Optimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cynical\_Optimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cynical_Optimist)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/43 "2005-10-21T15:11:28Z")
Jazz purists will scoff at these suggestions, but I’ve enjoyed listening to: **Kevyn Lettau** - German singer of Brazilian Jazz (IIRC she’s a Sergio Mendes protoge). **Machan Taylor** - Ex-Hiroshima vocalist (Worst. Name. Ever. for a Japanese band). The female parts of the **New York Voices** aren’t bad, they certainly outsing their male counterparts. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/44 "2005-10-21T17:05:15Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > There’s no jazz on it. This is obviously very subjective, but I think you’d find yourself on the outside of any consensus here, plnnr. What made Patsy Cline “new” in the Country Music world was her boundary stretching: she brought elements of pop and jazz into country that had never really been there before. k.d. lang took Patsy’s jazz elements even further, starting with _Shadowland_. \*Shadowland \*was really the transition piece between k.d. as a country singer, like she used to be, and a jazz singer, like she is now. This isn’t a mathematically provable fact, of course, but I think it’s the impression most k.d. fans would have. There’s an awful lot of Cline-style country on _Shadowland_, but “Black Coffee” and “Busy Being Blue” are pure jazz. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/45 "2005-10-21T17:11:50Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > No love for Carmen McRae? Post #21. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/46 "2005-10-21T17:46:49Z")
> [@Cynical Optimist](#): > > Jazz purists will scoff at these suggestions, but I’ve enjoyed listening to: > > **Kevyn Lettau** - German singer of Brazilian Jazz (IIRC she’s a Sergio Mendes protoge). > **Machan Taylor** - Ex-Hiroshima vocalist (Worst. Name. Ever. for a Japanese band). > The female parts of the **New York Voices** aren’t bad, they certainly outsing their male counterparts. I second the vote for Kevyn Lettau! I also like; Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) Eliane Elias ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048/47 "2005-10-22T18:56:18Z")
Shirley Horn, one of my favorite jazz singers, has died. > **[Shirley Horn, Jazz Singer and Pianist, Is Dead at 71 (Published 2005)](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/22/arts/music/shirley-horn-jazz-singer-and-pianist-is-dead-at-71.html)** > > Shirley Horn, a jazz singer and pianist who drew audiences close with a powerfully confidential, vibratoless delivery, died yesterday at a nursing home in Cheverly, Md. She was 71. Her death was announced by Regina Joskow, vice president of publicity... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-jazz-vocalists/327048.md?page=2)