Playlist and Notes 19 March 2024

Playlist 19 March 2024

Celebrating Women’s History month with an hour of jazz and blues featuring female artists.

 

Ella Fitzgerald – It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (4:16)

Artemis – The Sidewinder (5:05)

Billy Holiday & Her Orchestra – Body & Soul (2:59)

Anita O’Day – Fly Me To The Moon (3:46)

Peggy Lee – Fever (3:20)

Jocelyn Gould – Lover Come Back To Me (6:51)

Amina Figarova – All We Dance (5:37)

Anita Baker – Giving You The Best That I Got (3:54)

Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War (4:48)

Sister Rosetta Thorpe – Strange Things Happening Every Day (2:27)

Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long (3:12)

Diana Krall – I Love Being Here With You (5:15)

 

Ella Fitzgerald b. (25 April 1917) Newport News, VA; d. 1996. “Queen of Jazz.”  Spent most of her childhood in Yonkers, NY. Bing Crosby: “Man, woman or child, Ellas is the greatest.”

Artemis: Renee Rosnes (piano), Anat Cohen (clarinet), Melissa Aldana (tenor sax), Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Noriko Ueda (bass), Allison Millier (drums), Cecile McLorin Salvant (vocals)

The Sidewinder written by Lee Morgan.

Anita O’Day – b. 18 October 1919 (Chicago, IL); d. 2006. “The Jezebel of Jazz.”

Jocelyn Gould – Canadian guitarists, whose 2020 debut album, Elegant Traveler, was awarded a Juno for Jazz Album of the Year.

Amina Figarova – b. 1964 (Baku, Azerbaijan). Studied folk music and became interested in jazz.

Madeleine Peyroux – b. 1974 (Athens, GA). Moved to Paris when she was 13 and began singing with street musicians in the Latin Quarter.

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