distinctive voices and voicing--an ongoing Thread

[jazzboCR]

"Voices" is an easy one; "voicing" an instrument is much harder. I'll be looking for other Members to chime in, please.
1) Chet Baker--Did anyone before or since play such breathy trumpet? Coy voice too.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGAcP7Zh6U and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7HpibwCbA // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXC03U4mQoA << back-to-back full albums
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chet-bake.../biography << included because of one glaring error--he didn't fall from a hotel room but was thrown out by drug dealers he tried to cheat
Miles Davis--especially on muted trumpet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVnm66jo...1C906C801C and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBq87dbKy...1C906C801C also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsb-lXec7...1C906C801C then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3W_alUuF...1C906C801C finally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExS...1C906C801C << This and "Jazz Samba" by Stan Getz are cornerstones of any jazz collection
Stan Getz--How could such a total sh!t of a human being do something so lovely? Enduring mystery...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2SffeDg...c2SffeDg1g << full album--1 or 2 cuts just don't do it and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp6Nw5ZJgIA then 2 from much later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Y1Eb-HuDs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1hKJNZq1c

Next time--singers.

[SteveO]

DIZZY GILLESPIE !!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjZa7lyyGlw

CHARLIE BIRD PARKER !!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgxyyrqZ-I

GENE JUG AMMONS!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhp70aJ-b2o

GERRY MULLIGAN ...can't get any more lyrical and beautiful than this!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25yQ9C4E79w

[jazzboCR]

How about some vocals? Starting with my Main Man Delbert McClinton--singer, songwriter, band leader, cruise leader, the soul of Texas R&B.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7JCWoxtGLs << showcase for hip horns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7tFeVLNH5E << 1 of his best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gnmdkShNc8 << this is "aging gracefully". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ojRGf8cek << from a terrif German music TV show
Bonnie Raitt--a true survivor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYkgeql5AiQ << clever devil, ain't I? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vb0z7mY << 40 years ago, before her issues caused that white shock of hair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLpRBDrhn8 << I could listen to her singing the Yellow Pages. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_R0U2DGR0w << full show.
Smokey Robinson Motown wouldn't have been Motown without him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzO0nbh048g << 13 song mashup
Freddie Mercury Love'm or hate'm but you can't deny him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p4MZJsexEs << He was a big-time stamp collector and shopped for himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbIcfFD30Ms << talk about living a song!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9FaOiWRciI << a curiosity but it so works
hijacking my own thread for a moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnHBO9FY4Ic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omja1ivpx0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-rkJmRiFug then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUJztI884M finally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE << a requiem, of sorts

[evilB]

Great Thread!
Here's some distinctive vocalists:
Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPtrqvHGEg
Glenn Yarbrough - Baby If The Rain Must Fall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBfIaFr2Jfg
Marianne Faithfull - Wherever I Go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-5ho9zdMI8
Bob Geldof - Great Song Of Indifference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CfxkFj8iAg
Mike Scott (The Waterboys) - The Glastonbury Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36J_dWL6cE

[SteveO]

Yes indeed, great thread!

Here's some of my picks:

Blossom Dearie - I'm Hip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMB5CzzWXMQ

Dani Davey of Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost in the Fog - I had to post this! Dani is accredited with having a voice that goes from lower bass to a high octave (six octaves) !!!, thus the post!..lol Strap on your seat belts !!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmUbmPsxlw

Dinah Washington - All of Me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSav4UrBPI

Boz Scaggs - Lowdown - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mha7S99TE5U

Sheila Jordan ...alive and well at 85!!! - Blackbird - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VuuaUsTa0o

[jazzboCR]

GERRY MULLIGAN ...can't get any more lyrical and beautiful than this!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25yQ9C4E79w

Not many songs about jazz DJs--here's one about West Coaster Jimmy Lyons by written and played the master of the bari sax (with Chet Baker): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytzsh7eJz8U

[SteveO]

^ Yes! Nice one Jazz!