Jazz Beginner

[Lyndsay26]

Hi Everyone! My name is Lyndsay and I enjoy jazz music, the more I hear it, the more I like it! But I don't know much about it. I've listened to some early jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and more modern artists such as Miles Davis and Michael Buble. Can anyone please recommend any other vocal jazz performers?

[Tiggi]

Two obvious ones are missing from your list IMHO.

Billie Holiday was entry point into Jazz after seeing Diana Ross in the biopic Lady Sings The Blues. BH didn't have a particularly easy life, and whilst she wasn't a brilliantly gifted tecnical singer, no-one before or since has portrayed emotion in quite the same way.

Also, Ella Fitzgerald is well worth checking out. EF is at the other end of the scale, and is a wonderful singer. Her Songbooks series of releases are a great starting point.

[drgnk]

Diane Schuur
Sarah Vaughan
Astrud Gilberto
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[SteveO]

Sheila Jordan (if you can find her!)
Urszula Dudziak (great Polish singer)
Mel Torme
Carmen McRae
Tony Bennett

Astrud Gilberto as mentioned by drgnk (the Queen of Bossa - Nova) beautiful singing !

[Crazygu106]

Would definitely recommend you Jane Monheit, Diane Reeves, Kevin Mahogany, Johnny Hartman, Rachelle Ferrell. =) There should be more on the list too. =D

[JazzDOit]

Try Charmaine Clamor. Aside from her classy voice, hear well the ukulele instrument of her songs which gives unique hint of her jazz music genre called "jazzipino" (combiantion of Jazz and Filipino Music).

[mtthwibrahim]

The John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman collaboration is the finest example of vocal jazz ever put to record

[SteveO]

Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington

Two obvious ones are missing from your list IMHO.

Billie Holiday was entry point into Jazz after seeing Diana Ross in the biopic Lady Sings The Blues. BH didn't have a particularly easy life, and whilst she wasn't a brilliantly gifted tecnical singer, no-one before or since has portrayed emotion in quite the same way.

Also, Ella Fitzgerald is well worth checking out. EF is at the other end of the scale, and is a wonderful singer. Her Songbooks series of releases are a great starting point.