Jazz for aficionados

orpheus10,

I have 2 of Jacintha's albums I bought at the same time around 10 years ago after hearing her voice, which I agree, is beautiful. They are "Lush Life" which contains the song from you first link. Your following 2 links were great selections which showcase her abilities as a jazz vocalist. I also have "The Girl From Bossa Nova" in which she sings beautiful renditions of Bossa Nova classics.


Here is one from the Bossa Nova album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWl22wlGR9U


Lat night I listened to Ben Webster's album from 1959 titled "The Soul of Ben Webster" - one of my favorites in my Webster collection. It is definitely "old school jazz rooted in the blues" 

Here is the longest song on the album and a classic which as you would say bears repeated listening's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj--aO61TN8

mary_jo and alex where have you been?

It there an internet blackout over there in the Balkans?

pjw, we are certainly in harmony today; both of those are boss and on my shopping list.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJybhk47xU


Mundell Lowe on guitar is someone I haven’t heard in awhile; I’m quite familiar with all the artists on that album, and they’re sounding extra special.


I definitely don’t have enough of Jacintha, that will be corrected.



I was wondering the same thing about Alex and Mary_jo?

Sometimes it seems that you can't really hear a song until you've sang it. It's only after you have experienced the emotional depths of the words can you hear the song.
"The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" is such a song; I'll try to illuminate what I mean.



Here's the setting; Gigolo and Gigolette, prior to their chance meeting, have lost their hearts to the one and only true love they have ever known, but even if they're an empty shell, life goes on.


While they both are attractive, they know that even that will be coming to an end before long; life for them is whatever they can get out of the moment. When they take a kiss without regret, they're thinking of someone in that broken dream that they left behind, but each kiss without regret, is about whatever exhilaration they can get out of the moment; these kisses merely ease the pain of broken dreams.

Both of them are singing a song and dancing along, but their souls are in an old Cathedral town where they left their broken dreams.




I walk along the street of sorrow -
The boulevard of broken dreams -
Where Gigolo and Gigolette -
Can take a kiss without regret -
and so forget their broken dreams.

You laugh today and cry tomorrow -
When you behold your shattered schemes -
And Gigolo and Gigolette wake up to find
their eyes are wet with tears that tell of
broken dreams.

"Here is where you'll always find me -
Always walking up and down -
But I left my soul behind me
in an old cathedral town"
The joy that you find here, you borrow -
You cannot keep it long it seems -
But Gigolo and Gigolette -
Still sing a song and dance along -
The boulevard of broken dreams.
[REPEAT]


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgBgaR01Mk&list=RDmpgBgaR01Mk&start_radio=1

pjw
Interesting that you had posted something from Fela. O10 & I had discussed him very briefly earlier this year. I have been listening to him for 40 plus years. I was buying his albums way back when it was tough to find them.  
HIs music is enjoyable on more than one level. It's danceable but also the solos are interesting to listen to even though it's not strict jazz.
A couple of points not in the article you posted. I had read that Fela was influenced by Miles Davis and Sly and the Family Stone. He was poised to make a US tour and break out as a star over here  sometime around 1980 when he was arrested at the Nigerian Airport  for having more than $5,000 on his person which was apparently a crime there. I actually wrote a letter through Amnesty International to try and help get his release. HIs breakout album of the time ,  was excellent I will post it if I can find it online.
But unfortunately he never became a star over here.