Jazz Articles about Lee Wiley

About Lee Wiley

Radio & Podcasts

Stevie Wonder, Vanisha Gould, Sarah Pillow, Amy London, Julieta Eugenio, Marianne Solivan, Jocelyn Gould & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 19, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Angela O'Neill, Stevie Wonder, Sarah Pillow, Amy London, Julieta Eugenio, Marianne Solivan, Jocelyn Gould, Vanisha Gould, with birthday shoutouts to Lee Wiley, Pam Fleming, Violeta Parra}, Roxana Ahmed, Emma Larsson, Amy Cervini and Honorable Men Thelonious Monk and Johnny O'Neal, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman's Plac is in ...

First Time I Saw

Lee Wiley

by Carol Sloane
August 26, 2023

I was singing in the Big Room of an elegant club in New York City called The Blue Angel. One night after the show, I joined some friends in the Art Deco lounge and saw a sight I'll never forget: a woman, draped in sable, seated at one of the black leather upholstered banquettes, surrounded by five or six gentlemen in black tie. The men were clearly enchanted with this glamourous creature, lighting her cigarettes, pouring her champagne, laughing ever ...

Radio & Podcasts

Sweet And Low Down

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 28, 2019

A two hour broadcast with new releases from the legendary Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, guitarists Amanda Monaco and Doug MacDonald, a single from Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science and vocalists Claudia Villela and Kate Vargas, with birthday shout outs to George Gershwin, Lee Wiley (pictured) and Alison Wedding, among others. Also a preview of who is currently playing around town. Playlist Anne Sajdera “New Year" from New Year (Bijuri Records) 00:00 Sarah McKenzie “It's All ...

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Album Review

Lee Wiley: Complete Fifties Studio Masters

by Craig Jolley
February 1, 2001

Like most great ballad singers Lee Wiley was grounded in the blues. Not that blues monopolized her repertoire (There is only one blues among the 51 tunes in this two-CD set.), but her blues-informed phrasing and timing gave her music a depth beyond that of the let's-cut-to-the-chase cutie pies. Combined with her cool, sensual sound and tiny vibrato (This is where Peggy Lee came from.) she was the preferred singer of many contemporary jazz musicians. By the 1950's her voice ...

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Album Review