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Roberta Gambarini: Learning to Love Jazz

Read "Roberta Gambarini: Learning to Love Jazz" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Not long ago a veteran Chicago jazz disc jockey played a track from a female vocalist's new CD only after complaining on the air about the seemingly unending stream of new recordings by female singers sent to his notice each week. The exception to his policy not to play them was due, he explained, to the ...

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Every Day I Have the Blues

Featuring the music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Duration: 4:49

The vocal group Lambert, Hendricks and Ross are joined by the Count Basie band and Basie's boy singer of the day, O.C. Smith, in a rendition of this Basie classic. Count Basie(p) Thad Johnes, George Cohn, Lenny Johnson, Snooky Young (tp) Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Quentin Jackson(tb) Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Charles Fowlkes, Albert "Bud" johnson(sax) Freddie Green(g) Eddie Jones(b) Sonny Payne(ds)
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Sing A Song of Basie

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Everyday, It's Sand Man!, Two for the Blues, One O'Clock Jump, Little Pony, Down for the Double, Fiesta in Blue, Down for the Count, Blues Backstage, Avenue C, Four Brothers, Cloudburst, Standin' on the Corner.

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Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross: Sing A Song of Basie

Read "Sing A Song of Basie" reviewed by David Rickert


Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross are pioneers of a unique singing style called vocalese, which involves replacing instrumental jazz with sung lines and invented lyrics. The method was first used by artists such as King Pleasure, who with a rhythm section backing him added lyrics to a Charlie Parker solo in a version that Parker hated. Lambert, ...

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Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross: Sing A Song of Basie

Read "Sing A Song of Basie" reviewed by David Rickert


Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross are pioneers of a unique singing style called vocalese, which involves replacing instrumental jazz with sung lines and invented lyrics. The method was first used by artists such as King Pleasure, who with a rhythm section backing him added lyrics to a Charlie Parker solo in a version that Parker hated. Lambert, ...

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Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan at Newport '63

Label: RCA Records
Released: 1999
Track listing:

Watermelon Man, Sack O' Woe, One O'Clock Jump, Deedle-Lee Deedle- Lum, Gimme That Wine, Yeh-Yeh!, Walkin', Cloudburst, Bye Bye Blackbird

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Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan: Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan at Newport '63

Read "Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan at Newport '63" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


When it comes to the classic art of vocalese (i.e. putting words to instrumental solos), no group or individual has really come close to reaching the pinnacle obtained by the group Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross during the late '50s and early '60s. Their versions of “Cookin' at the Continental", “Cloudburst", and “Twisted", too name just a ...


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