Jazz Articles about Annie Ross

Annie Ross: To Lady with Love

by C. Michael Bailey
August 20, 2014

If you want to hear the best Annie Ross, listen to King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings (Fantasy, 1952). If you want to hear the most empathic and honest Annie Ross, listen to To Lady with Love. Ross is in her early to mid-80s and her voice is not what it was in the 50s and '60s, but her passion, grace and intelligence surpasses all previous recordings. This is a late autumn--early winter voice, to be sure. This recording ...

Annie Ross: Billie Holiday, Lady in Satin

by William Ellis
June 9, 2013

She was my hero, she was my mentor, she was my idol. I got to know her very very well and I was very proud that I did, because she was a real buddy of mine. I think there's a whole life in this voice for her to sing the songs that she sings; I mean, you could cry listening to her and I just think she was like a beautiful ebony statue. Great songs.

Annie Ross and Stevie Holland at The Metropolitan Room, NYC

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 15, 2007

During the month of May, there was a most unusual pairing of jazz vocalists--the legendary Annie Ross and rising star Stevie Holland, both performing every Tuesday night at The Metropolitan Room on Manhattan's West 22nd Street. When I caught them on May 22, they were both in fine form, their joint performance inviting some quick comparisons.

Annie Ross' career has been so varied that she could author several books about each of the genres that she's become involved with. ...

Annie Ross: Let Me Sing

by Marcia Hillman
February 23, 2006

She may be best known as member of seminal vocalese group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, but septuagenarian singer Annie Ross has also enjoyed a long and successful career are a solo performer, with over a dozen releases to her name. All About Jazz caught up with Ross to discuss her new record on Consolidated Arts Productions, Let Me Sing.

All About Jazz: Your new CD is called Let Me Sing. Is that the reason you're still out there performing and ...

Annie Ross: Annie Ross Live in London

by Andrew Velez
December 20, 2005

Midway into this set, vocalist Annie Ross revisits “Jumpin' at the Woodside (Basie/Hendricks) and her high-energy delivery is an instant encapsulation of the halcyon days when she sparkplugged the now-legendary trio known as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Even before the trio's success, Ross' clarion pipes, stratospheric vocalizing, and musical know-how had made fans of the likes of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Dizzy Gillespie. This never-previously-released 1965 set was recorded live in her own short-lived London club, ...