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Marley Munroe (born 18 January 1985), known professionally as Lady Blackbird, is an American-born jazz and soul singer-songwriter, working primarily in the United Kingdom. [2] She has been described as "the Grace Jones of jazz".
What secured O'Day's place in the jazz pantheon, however, were the 17 albums she recorded for Norman Granz's Norgran and Verve labels between 1952 and 1962. [9] Her first album, Anita O'Day Sings Jazz (reissued as The Lady Is a Tramp), was recorded in 1952 for the newly established Norgran Records (it was also the label's first LP). The album ...
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
Doreen J. Ketchens (born October 3, 1966) is an American jazz clarinetist who performs Dixieland and trad jazz.She has performed at concert halls, music festivals, and U.S. embassies, as well as in decades of weekly performances in Dixieland's tradition in the Royal Street Performing Arts Zone in the French Quarter of New Orleans with her band, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans.
Lady Bird" is a sixteen-bar jazz standard by Tadd Dameron. This "celebrated" composition, "one of the most performed in modern jazz", was written around 1939, [ 1 ] and released in 1948. [ 2 ] Featuring, "a suave, mellow theme ," [ 3 ] it is the origin of the Tadd Dameron turnaround (in C: CM 7 E ♭ 7 A ♭ M 7 D ♭ 7 CM 7 ). [ 4 ]
Diane Joan Schuur (born December 10, 1953), nicknamed "Deedles", is an American jazz singer and pianist. As of 2015, Schuur had released 23 albums, and had extended her jazz repertoire to include essences of Latin, gospel, pop and country music.
On the Road Again: Live at Jazz Club Etoile (Ahead AH 830.2, 2016) Rhoda Scott Lady Quartet: We Free Queens (Sunset SUN-023, 2017) Blanc Cassé (with Christophe Monniot and Jeff Boudreaux) (Sergent Major Company, 2017) Time For Love (with Sophie Alour) (Music From Source, 2017) Movin' Blues (Sunset SUN-027, 2020) Lady All Stars (Sunset SUN-038 ...
Carlene Denise Moore-Begnaud (born August 27, 1972) [1] is a retired American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring name Jazz.She is best known for her time at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where she was a two-time WWF/WWE Women's Champion. [4]