There’s no jazz on it.
No love for Carmen McRae?
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.
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.
Post #21.
I second the vote for Kevyn Lettau!
I also like;
Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)
Eliane Elias
Shirley Horn, one of my favorite jazz singers, has died.