In this program, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams, Lou Rawls, Billie Holiday, Etta Jones, Laverne Butler and others talk about and demonstrate jazz singing steeped in the blues. Webb Jazz was born amidst revelry and ribaldry.
Jazz vocals have from the beginning dealt with the earthier side of life.
O.C. Smith, Oscar Brown, Jr., and Jon Hendricks let the good times roll. Producer - Joan Merrill From early spirituals to gospel to blues to jazz, singing as an expression of deep emotion evolved, with the various strains blending into each other. This melding of styles is heard in such singers as Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington, Ernestine Anderson, Little Jimmy Scott, Nancy Wilson, Marlena Shaw, Mary Stallings and Carla Cook. Various styles of jazz singing are presented with help from Anita O'Day, Betty Carter, Joe Williams, Ernestine Anderson, Etta Jones, Abbey Lincoln, Diane Reeves and others. Producer - Sonja Williams Jazz singing is usually a very singular art, with individual artists fastidiously honing their own deeply personal styles and approaches.