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Who Was Jane Fielding?

Who Was Jane Fielding?

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Back in 2012, I posted on Jane Fielding, a husky-voiced vocalist who recorded just two albums—Introducing Jane Fielding (1955) and Embers Glow (1956)—along with two songs performed on Bobby Troup's Stars of Jazz in 1957. Then she disappeared. At the end of the post, I originally asked Ms. Fielding to reach out to me. In February I heard from Jane's daughter, Tina. Here's what she said in her email... “I just found the wonderful story you wrote about my Mom. ...

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Jane Fielding: Embers Glow

Jane Fielding: Embers Glow

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

I'm convinced you can spend a lifetime listening to captivating albums by female jazz singers of the 1950s. There seems to be an endless supply. Today, the names of these vocalists are completely unknown or forgotten by most fans of the music. In many cases these women recorded one or two albums in New York or Los Angeles and then disappeared—either because they found the hard hours and low pay unbearable or because they married and found other ways to ...

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