Whilst the earliest stars of jazz music were instrumentalists, it wasn’t long before jazz singers took centre stage at the front of the bandstand and became the stars of the day. We’ve already published our big list of thebest jazz vocalists of all timeand shone a light on the mostfam...
Over 14K music fans have voted on the 115 Best Female Jazz Singers Of All Time. Current Top 3: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan
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Also ranks #3 on The Greatest Baritone Singers in Music History Also ranks #4 on The Greatest Crooners Of All Time 19 Nina Simone 422 votes Combining her soulful voice, prodigious piano skills, and unyielding commitment to civil rights activism, Nina Simone remains an iconic and influential fig...
Billie Holiday, known as “Lady Day,” remains one of the most influential jazz singers in jazz. Her influence reaches far beyond jazz, with many pop vocalists citing her as a major influence. Emotional Depth With its unique timbre and phrasing, Billie’s voice conveyed emotions in a distinct...
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An innovator of bebop drumming,Max Roachwas also an outspoken activist. In the 1960s, he recorded We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960), featuring his wife at the time, and fellow activist Abbey Lincoln. The title of the work represents the heightened fervor that the 60s brought to the civ...
or metre.Sun Ra’s Arkestra, with instrumentalists, singers, and dancers, enriched free jazz with a colourful sense of spectacle, and theArt Ensemble of Chicagoand other musiciansaffiliatedwith that city’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians explored new sound colours and melodic...
Partake of the cornucopia of phrases Louis Armstrong creates here, listen well, and you will hear them echo not only in what jazz trumpeters did and still do, but in all instruments played by genuine jazz musicians, and notes sung and scored by real jazz singers and composers. Louis ...
Instead, we’ve chosen a 40-strong selection of singers, horn players, pianists, guitarists, bassists, and drummers whom we consider to be among the best jazz musicians to have ever walked the earth. Check out some of the greatest jazz albums on vinyl here. An Unfailing Ear: The ...