Posted 01 June 2007 - 10:19 PM
QUOTE(icetreeun @ Mar 2 2006, 08:50 PM)
wah~ I didn't think anyone would really post anything.. ^o^
But yes~
Do you have any recommendations for some of the more obscure-underground artists during those decades? I can only think of the major singers..
Rosemary Clooney (of George Clooney fame). She has an amazing voice. Started as a pop singer and progressed to be one of the most influential/gifted jazz vocalists of all time. Not exactly underground, but not exactly a major singer either.
Nina Simone also get's no love, although I think she's pretty much one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time.
"But when it ends and while it ends, something comes, after so much rage, persistence, obstinacy, extravagance; something entirely unexpected and touching in its mildness and goodness. With the motif passed through many vicissitudes, which takes leave and so doing becomes itself entirely leave-taking, a parting wave and call, with this D G G occurs a slight change, it experiences a small melodic expansion. After an introductory C, it puts a C sharp before the D. . .and this added C Sharp is the most moving, consolatory, pathetically reconciling thing in the world. It is like having one's hair or cheek stroked, lovingly, understandingly, like a deep and silent farewell look. . . . " (Mann: 55).
) , Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington...
