Jazz Articles about Etta Jones
Never Forget to Say Thank You
by Mary Foster Conklin
This week we feature Grammy nominees and finalists from the Hot House/Jazzmobile NYC Readers Jazz Awards, a new release from Alice Ricciardi and Pietro Lussu, plus birthday shout outs to June Christy, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mandel, Etta Jones, pianist Geoffrey Keezer and Michelle Ann May of Musique Noire, among others. Playlist Musique Noire “Pretty Ugly" from Reflections We Breathe (Self released) 00:00 Catherine Russell “Early In the Morning" from Alone Together (Dot Time) 06:28 Carmen Lundy “Ola De ...
read moreEtta Jones: A Soulful Sunday - Live At The Left bank
by Angelo Leonardi
Pochi si ricordano di Etta Jones e qualcuno la confonderà con {Etta James}}. A dispetto delle alte doti tecniche e interpretative, la cantante non ha avuto i riconoscimenti che meritava. Cresciuta ad Harlem, debuttò negli anni '40 nelle serate per debuttanti dell'Apollo Theater, si fece le ossa con Pete Johnson, Barney Bigard ed Earl Hines, ottenne un improvviso successo nel 1960 con il brano “Don't Go To Strangers" e toccò la piena maturità alla fine dei settanta incidendo per la ...
read moreEtta Jones: Don't Go to Strangers
by Jim Santella
"Don't Go to Strangers was Etta Jones' trademark song. She could make any jazz standard come alive, though, and she did on this 1960 Prestige album with a line-up of jazz all-stars. Together, band and vocalist tell the stories with a genuine spirit. The sound is superb. Jones and the band are in sync, and the mood fits pure jazz like a glove.
Some readers are apt to confuse Etta Jones with Etta James. We remember Jones because ...
read moreEtta Jones: Don't Go To Strangers
by Samuel Chell
Etta Jones Don't Go To Strangers [Remastered RVG Edition] Prestige 2006
Mention Etta Jones to casual followers of the jazz vocal scene, and brace yourself for a quizzical expression in return. Or if the name produces a spark of recognition, wait long enough for the frequent retraction ("Oh, I thought you meant Etta James") before comparing notes. For an artist whose career spanned nearly sixty years and yielded no small number of memorable recordings, ...
read moreRemembering Etta Jones
by Mathew Bahl
There always seemed to be something indestructible about Etta Jones. You could hear it best on up-tempo tunes when she would swing with a joyful abandon and an almost godlike authority. But even when she sang the most tragic and heart wrenching of ballads--and she sang more than her share of tragic, heart wrenching ballads--Jones conveyed a resilient inner core. You knew that when the crying and heartache were over, she would pick up the pieces and move on. She ...
read moreEtta Jones: Hollar
by David Rickert
Etta Jones is one of many singers who find it hard to escape the large shadow cast by songbirds like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, but still manage to create music filled with verve, grace, and sophistication. Hollar is an odd title for a record as subdued and mannered as this one is; Jones is much more silky and seductive than she is bellowing and boisterous. Essentially, this record is made up of three separate sessions, where Jones is mostly ...
read moreEtta Jones: Easy Living
by Mathew Bahl
Easy Living, Etta Jones’ wonderful new CD, is a celebration of a reunion and a partnership. The partnership is, of course, Ms. Jones’ longstanding collaboration with Houston Person. Mr. Person has played on and/or produced nearly all of Ms. Jones’ recordings since 1976. The reunion is with pianist Richard Wyands who in 1960 played for Ms. Jones on her breakthrough album, Don’t Go To Strangers.
Ms. Jones’ nasal, instantly identifiable tone has only grown richer and more textured with age. ...
read more
