Jazz for aficionados

mary_jo, Rok posted a number of fantastic women in jazz; I'll try and recall them.

I brought up a lady jazz pianist that we discussed at length; her name was Mary Lou Williams, and what made her so unusual was how she changed with the times. I thought she predated the music I was into, and didn't bother to investigate; was I ever wrong; Rok agreed.

What we need is your evaluation; that's the one that counts.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X4r5ZioIBw


I find her interpretations unusual; take "It Ain't Necessarily So";


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20kDIh3q928


     

frogman"Invitation" is perhaps my favorite standard tune. I love the version w/ strings which opened the movie posted by O10. I believe this song was featured in another movie from the same era but can't remember. the name.
To me the song has a certain exotic feel with an air of mystery & longing.
I had forgotten the versions you posted by Coltrane and Henderson. I own  both of those lp's .  both versions are stellar but for this listening session I enjoyed the Henderson version.
These are 2 of my favorite versions
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvMy9OuOIw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2gSQmD5h0

O-10, this is not a competition as you always insist on making it. Ella/Joe Pass “(not) as good as this”. Well, la-di-da!

Kurt Weill, “out to lunch”!? You missed the point.  A very important point and not at all unusual that you missed it.  Once again, you unfortunately demonstrate that you often let your asessment of music be governed by factors other than its merit or points of interest. Unfortunate; especially coming from a “connoisseur”.  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mn423hPa2bk.

We sadly lost the great Geri Allen recently.  One of the most important women in jazz of recent times:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6qS05TZmME

In a trio setting with two other prominent current women of jazz:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=INcuvX6oudA

No frogman,it is you who missed the point; Kurt Weils couldn't sing if his life depended on it, he should stick to writing.

Of course we know Ella can sing, but in my opinion, that song, according to the words should convey the urgent desperation to out race time and the descending curtain; it should convey passion and the need to fill available time with wild romance and love; which Carmen's does; while Ella's conveys beauty; beauty is not a substitute for passion.

All the words to that song convey love, passion, and time; "time is a thief"; the curtain will descend, and everything ends, all too soon.


Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief.


The couple staring across the table and looking into each others eyes, while listening to Sonny Clark's music, who knew the words, got the message that "Love is pure gold and time is a thief". Life was for those who lived it, not for those who watched others live it.


Another case of a great diva who missed the message was "lady Day"; she sang a song the wrong way that someone else chose at the last minute, and she was very angry about it.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgK3vi4rMw


This is the way it should have been sung;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf27yA20OhU


You tell me why Lorez sang it the way it should have been sung, and Billy didn't; not my words in regard to the song but "Billie Holiday's".