[DRuM]

I think you should check out N'dambi. She's got a great voice, a unique style and great songs. Yes, it's more R&B than jazz, but there is some swing on this CD. I went to see her at the jazz cafe last week,and she blew me away. CD of the year for me.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...music&n=507846

 

[hottyson]

Quote:

Originally posted by brschmid Norah Jones????

I didn't want to purchase her CD but I listened to her DVD

"Live in New Orleans" and fell in love. Great DVD with an intimate concert feel.

 

[Tina]

nina simone, joni mitchell, gillian welch, sarah mclachlan, natalie merchant, annie lennox and cory sipper.

also check out lucinda williams early works.

 

[pingles]

Definitely pick yourself up a Nina Simone CD or two.

For a more modern feel, I highly recommend an album called Cewbeagappic by Beady Belle. The opening track is awesome, listening to it now in fact

Cewbeagappic - Amazon

 

[Gariver]

I also like Diana Krall!

Here's another one: Elaine Elias. This CD combines Brazilian and American Jazz...

http://www.jazzmusicnet.com/Kissed_b...00006JJ2N.html

 

[robert]

Beth Gibbons - Out of Season
Audra McDonald - anything she's done

 

[porta]

I like Diana Krall but "Don't know why" I don't like Norah Jones.

Porta

 

[daycart1]

Quote:

Originally posted by porta I like Diana Krall but "Don't know why" I don't like Norah Jones. Porta

Maybe because it is not jazz!

Y'all beat me to my suggestions. I like mostly old school stuff, but Patricia Barber is particularly interesting--great lyrics!

 

[pingles]

Going to be arsey here, but what is Jazz?

 

[Theresamarie1]

Patricia Barber, any of her albums. My favorite is Nightclub but Companion, Cafe Blue and Modern Cool are all fantastic. You will not be dissapointed!

 

[snoop]

I kinda dig Jane Monheit, myself.

 

[hottyson]

Quote:

Originally posted by pingles Going to be arsey here, but what is Jazz?

"If you have to ask, you'll never know."
-quote from Miles Davis


There is tremendous variety in jazz, but most jazz is very rhythmic, has a forward momentum called "swing," and uses "bent" or "blue" notes.
-from Smithsonian on "What is jazz?"
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/class.../wij_start.asp



[size=medium]jazz:[/size]
American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre
-from Merriam-Webster Dictionary


[size=medium]jazz:[/size]
A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
-from American Heritage Dictionary

 

[pingles]

Thanks for those, Miles Davis' has a nice sentiment to it.

 

[earful]

Great thread. Thanks, everybody.

 

[Archangel]

- Radka Toneff