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A resource guide of music, videos, and books from the different eras and styles of the genre.

7. The Singers
Women and Men

Listen: The Women
All audio materials should be available through the Public Radio MusicSource®, most record stores, The Smithsonian Institution, and some public libraries.

  • The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (Verve 314 519 564-2)
  • Billie Holiday: The Golden Years (LP) Columbia C 34 21)
  • The Carman McRae-Betty Carter Duets (Verve 314 519 564-2)
  • Peggy Lee: Beauty and the Beat with George Shearing (Capitol B 2IY 98454)
  • Sarah Vaughan: Live in Japan (Mobile Sound Fidelity Lab MFCD 2 844-2)

Listen: The Men

  • Johnny Hartman: Unforgettable (Impulse IMPD 152)
  • Joe Williams: Here's to Life (Telarc 20 83357)
  • Mel Torme: Night at the Concord Pavilion (Concord CCD 4433)
  • Nat Cole Trio: Hit That Jive Jack (Decca CRD 622)
  • Kurt Elling: Close Your Eyes (Blue Note CDP 7243 830645)

View: The Women
The videos listed with an asterisk (*) can be ordered from Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc., P.O. Box 1244C, New Albany, IN 47151-1224 (800-456-1388).

  • The Ladies Sing the Blues (A 77)*
  • Ella Fitzgerald on Tour, Volume II (A 335)*
  • Sarah Vaughan and Friends (A 136)*
  • Peggy Lee: The Quintessential (A 276)*
  • Lester Young and Billie Holliday (A 300)*

View: The Men
The videos listed with an asterisk (*) can be ordered from Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc., P.O. Box 1244C, New Albany, IN 47151-1224 (800-456-1388).

  • Joe Williams: A Song is Born (a 160)*
  • Nat King Cole Plus the Mills Brothers (A 153)*
  • The Jazz Singers: Various Artists (A 311)*

Read

  • Chilton, John. Billie's Blues. Quartet Books Limited, London, 1987 (reprint).
  • Friedwald, Will. Jazz Singing. Charles Scribner's Sons, MacMillan Publishing Company New York, 1990.
  • Gourse, Leslie. Sassy, The Life of Sarah Vaughan. Charles Scribner's Sons, MacMillan Publishing Company, New York, 1993.
  • Nicholson, Stuart. Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz. Charles Scribner's Sons, MacMillan Publishing Company, New York, 1993.

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