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Jazz vocalists recorded wonderfully

Just arrived today, Jacintha/Lush Life a  2001 release, Specifically jazzy slow blues, 
All star back up artists, with all piano and string arraingments by  the incredibly gifted, creative Bill Cunliffe, Stunning arraignments,  Guitarist Anthony Wilson, another super star, Accordion work on a  few tracks from Frankie Marocco, 
Super Star band.
So after listening first time, all tracks have the same blues-jazzy ambience. You might think, , maybe a  change up on a  few tracks would have added some spices, 
Not really, Not a dull track on the cd. 
Following up my previous topic, , which jazz vocalists do you feel, actually work just fine, if not perfect, in spite of any studio tinkerings. 
My vote has to go with Jacintha's Lush Life. 
How much tinkering is added, is not at all important, Jacintha set out to create a  lush dreamy atmposphere, and she has acomplished the task with  wonderful success. 
Its dreamy lushness. 
Here, one never gives any thoughts about how her voice <<might be>> modded
, as she sounds just so natural  in these soft , delicate, <no rush> melodies.
This is a  2001 record, same  years as Diana Krall's releases, and Lush Life also has that warm recorded studio sound. But not nearly as warmed over as noted in Diana Krall's work.
Other artists that you consider a  natural, and not  touched up with excess.
 

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When you listen to the best singers there is in history in all styles, your taste ask for the truthfull expressive but simple powerful heartfull rendition...

We must prefer one genius over another one, but simplicity and ease, with truth always win our heart...This is called genius....For example takes Ella Fitzgerald...Or Billie Holiday....Or Kathleen Ferrier...Or Amalia Rodrigues...

Beside that we have the crowd of talented singers "au gout du jour" that we can like but never love....For example Diana Krall....She is very good.... That is not the point.... Is she a genius like Ella or Maria Callas? i dont think so....

A day of listening is made of chocolate cake and simple bread also, or even peanuts and Goddam! i like peanuts when i want peanuts....

I prefer the brazil nuts of Irene Kral to Diana Krall peanuts tough ..... :)

By the way i dont give a dam about the style, be it classical, jazz, folk, fado or even persian-iranian (Mahsa Vahdat or Minoo Javan or Shusha), or arabic (Oum Khalsoum) or Indian (Kishori Amonkar).

Geniuses know no borders....
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Geniuses know no borders....



Great post, I Like your sense of honest and humor. 

Art is art, one should not so rush to judge


I watched a  travel show many years ago, british traveler, showing us Kazakistan. 
Beautiful but very rough climate to etch out a bare living,, at the very end of his show, sucha  shame he did not devote at least another minute or 2 of this young Kazak tribal folk singer playing her small guitar stype instrument. 
Just incredible,, I would buy all her cds IF avaliable,,I serached forever looking for Kazak folk singers,,but nothing near what magic this gal sang out. 
Think about how much folk muisc has been wonderfully performed in mountainous regions north of Indian, all eastern russia. Never recorded, sadly, regretfully, we will never have the pleasure to be swooned by these magical folk stars. 
But so, yeah, should we give so much credit to modern artsist who rely too much on voice mods via high tech gadgets?

My wife  tells me do not touch her Diana Krall cds,,even thuogh she never listens to them, **I like Diana Krall*, 
My vote is immaterial. 
The public decides the vote.

mozartfan OP
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Geniuses know no borders....
My collection is classical, but not much pre 1900.
You might like the super high genius (equal to Einstein as  far as music, spiritual ideas go) of Alfred Schnittke. I have all his music,
Also note Elliott Carter, Allan Pettersson(love all his syms minus 2 and 16),  and how could i forget the super genius of Hans HENZE, have all his  music, Astonishing. 
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Then i will vouch for my own Gods : Scriabin and Sorabji... But anyway all geniuses are brothers, only idiots hate....

Try Ostad Elahi on the tanbur.... the greatest master of string instrument i ever listen to....Yehudi Menuhin speak of him like the greatest musical experience in his life.... You will look for it freely on the internet....
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Then i will vouch for my own Gods : Scriabin and Sorabji... But anyway all geniuses are brothers, only idiots hate....


Might be brothers as far as musical understanding goes,
But I do in fact hate quite a  few of the romantic composers, #1 hate goes to all Ludwig Von Beethoven. I hate hiis muisc more than anyone who ever lived.  More than Debussy and Ravel hated Beethoven's music...
 That hate extends to all his  students as well, Brahms, Shumann, Scubert, Dvorak etc etc, Yes I can hear the greatness in Brahms,, , I can appreciate Brahms,but I own no cds, and have no interest ever listening to anything Brahms. So yeah I hate his muisc as well, 
Mahler/Bruckner, hate the muisc from those 2 genius composers. I really hate Mahler's muisc, Bruckner I can barely stand, but not represented in my now closed cd collection. 
Chopin I have zero interest, 
 I have Scriabin's piano muisc, who needs the outdated Chopin salon muisc??
,I only recently  awoke to his piano muisc just some years ago, Safronitsky please on piano, Really nice   neo romantic works, His orchestral,  not interested. Do not care for his orchestral. 
Just heard a  bit of Ostad Elahi, I much perfer Ravi Shankar.


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