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The Rooftop Singers

Jazz Meets Folk, Folk Meets Jazz

by Jerome Wilson
April 1, 2022

This show looks at some of the many cross-pollinations between jazz and folk music. There are jazz musicians like Dave Brubeck and Dave Douglas dabbling in folk forms and folk musicians like Pentangle and Dave Van Ronk exercising their jazz chops. There are also pieces based on folk musics outside of the usual Anglo-American axis.

The Best of The Vanguard Years

By The Rooftop Singers

Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Walk Right In; Dip Your Fingers; You Don

The Rooftop Singers: The Best of The Vanguard Years

by C. Michael Bailey
February 3, 2004

The immediate appeal of the Rooftop Singers is their innocent yet informed style. Popular in the mid-'60s, this group predated the Hippie Movement and the Summer of Love. They arose during the searing career of the similar Weavers (the group guitarist/vocalist Erik Darling belonged to before joining the Rooftops). Where the Weavers became political lightening rods, ...