P.S. +1 @bojack on Shirley Horn and Rosemary Clooney. I'd add Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, and Abbey Lincoln. All their voices took on a lot of richness as the singers got older.
Female vocals
What is it about female vocals that so many audiophiles adore? Many, many speaker reviews talk about female vocals at some point as if that was the zenith of recorded music. It's the same at audio shows. Just about every room is playing some version of the same, bland music. Just once I'd like to be drawn to a room because they were playing Tool or Opeth, but nooooo, it's jazz or Norah Jones.
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Dietrich Fischer Dieskau : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Rry-ahcHM
The greateast male voices for me are not tenor voices but bass voices, especially basso profundo or oktavists because there is a superpower in these voices , something akin to the sacred divine in a commanding way ...Oktavists voices are supernatural and counter tenor voices too but to a lesser degree they are unnatural and angelic in a feminine way ... My male voice supremum is Diectrich Fisher Dieskau who mastered singing at a level only the supreme female voices can do and staying a bass , a baritone ...... Oktavists : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWueUXhYzg The most versatile and moving female voice able to sing anything in any genre, is Marian Anderson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7zjNiz2ZI And now if you want to know how and where Billie Holiday take the inner power to put "strange fruit" expressive version listen to "crucifixion" by Anderson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFEOhZ8Jb4 Then Anderson being a counter alto , it is not the high frequencies mastery that make female voice supreme but something akin to some timbre tonal quality which is yin not yang to be short ... The voice of our mother and the voice of God... You cannot beat these two even with an angel voice ...😊
I think this is true ...
And this is a fundamental determinative fact for all of us...
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