Jazz Articles about Shirley Bassey
About Shirley Bassey
Instrument: Voice / vocals
Article Coverage | Calendar | Albums | Photos | Similar ArtistsShirley Bassey: Greatest Hits

by AAJ Staff
Riding the tail end of her Propellerhead-ed revival and the never-ending revival of the Bond films, the sassy Ms. Bassey is back with a retrospective of her decades of well-dictioned themes. Bassey plays her trump cards and also bluffs a few hands on tunes ranging from her unrivaled 007 three-fer of Diamonds are Forever," Moonraker" and Goldfinger," to splashy show tunes like Big Spender" and attempts at pop coverage--like a note- and gender-bending take on The Beatles’ Something" and a ...
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