All Blues Vocal
Ken Jones
swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
Thanks,
Ken Jones
Msclvr718
>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
I've heard a version by Morgana King on her "With a Taste of Honey" LP.
arranger
> >Does anyone
> >on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
There is a CD out by the vocal jazz group New York Voices called "What's
Inside". It was released in 1993 on the GRP label.
The first track is "All Blues". . . a 6:37 vocalese of the Miles Davis tune. . .
Hope this helps,
Chuck Naffier
Ali Berkok
Ken Jones wrote:
>
> I recently heard a version of Miles Davis' All Blues with a great,
> swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
> on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Jones
Marc Sabatella
>I recently heard a version of Miles Davis' All Blues with a great,
>swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
A search of the ASCAP and/or BMI site (ascap.com & bmi.com, I
believe) will usually turn up such lists. I suspect there are others -
All-Music, maybe.
One version I have & like is by Kellye Gray. Swinging, nice scatting.
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Tim Cramm
>I recently heard a version of Miles Davis' All Blues with a great,
>swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
Kellye Gray, on the album "Standards," does a nice version. I've also
heard on the radio a man doing it, but I can't recall his name.
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Doyle Carmody
Brian Passingham
<timc...@att.net> writes
>Ken Jones wrote in message ...
>>I recently heard a version of Miles Davis' All Blues with a great,
>>swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
>>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
>
>
>Kellye Gray, on the album "Standards," does a nice version. I've also
>heard on the radio a man doing it, but I can't recall his name.
>
Possibly Tim Buckley's "Strange Feeling", which doesn't credit
Davis as composer, but is a fine piece of work (if you like that kind of
thing). Try "Live at the Troubadour 1969".
Brian Passingham
writes
>Why has Joe Williams not been mentioned?
>
>
Maybe because we haven't heard of him (in my case, anyway). Who
he?
demosthenes
what cd its on......
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Ken Jones wrote in message ...
>I recently heard a version of Miles Davis' All Blues with a great,
>swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
>
>Thanks,
>Ken Jones
Marc Sabatella
A well-known singer (I'm quite surprised you don't know of him), what
one might call a "blues shouter". Most famous for his work with Count
Basie a lot.
SGribetz
on his Bethlehem album "The Soft Land Of Make Believe". Also interesting is
that this contemporaneous version uses the original title "Flamenco Sketches"
(as mixed up on the Kind Of Blue album liner).
Additionally, if the original poster heard a version on radio these days, it
might have been Kevin Mahogany from his Double Rainbow album.
Sid
CarnaK
wrote:
>I recently heard a version of Miles Davis' All Blues with a great,
>swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
>
>Thanks,
>Ken Jones
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Maybe it was Dennis Rowland's cool version on Now Dig This!
with Joe Sample and Sal Marquez? Or Joe Williams' alternate live
track on a recent reissue?
Carnak.
Brian Passingham
<ma...@outsideshore.com> writes
>In article <hAciVMA7...@sagent.demon.co.uk>, Brian Passingham
><br...@sagent.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <36d5...@news1.us.ibm.net>, Doyle Carmody <do...@ibm.net>
>>writes
>>>Why has Joe Williams not been mentioned?
>>
>> Maybe because we haven't heard of him (in my case, anyway). Who
>>he?
>
>A well-known singer (I'm quite surprised you don't know of him), what
>one might call a "blues shouter". Most famous for his work with Count
>Basie a lot.
>
Ah, that explains it - I have a blind spot near where my Basie
receptors should be.
Jack Woker
> >swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
> >on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
I would have thought someone would have mentioned Oscar Brown Jr's
version of the song. I believe the lyrics employed by most of the other
versions were written by Brown.
jack
Andy Jack
>swinging vocal. I didn't catch the name of the artist or CD. Does anyone
>on the list know of vocal versions of this song?
Oscar Brown Jr. wrote a lyric for the head and Miles' solo (or at least
part of it). I can't remember which album it was on (not the first two
which I knew pretty well) but I've just looked on CDnow and failed to
find a CD version.
Andy
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Keith Henson
>
> In article <hAciVMA7...@sagent.demon.co.uk>, Brian Passingham <br...@sagent.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >In article <36d5...@news1.us.ibm.net>, Doyle Carmody <do...@ibm.net>
> >writes
> >>Why has Joe Williams not been mentioned?
> >
> > Maybe because we haven't heard of him (in my case, anyway). Who
> >he?
>
> A well-known singer (I'm quite surprised you don't know of him), what
> one might call a "blues shouter". Most famous for his work with Count
> Basie a lot.
>
> Marc Sabatella
> ma...@outsideshore.com
>
> Check out my latest CD, "Second Course"
> Available on Cadence Jazz Records
> Also "A Jazz Improvisation Primer", Scores, & More:
> http://www.outsideshore.com/
Sorry Marc.
Joe Williams is NOT a blues shouter. He is a singer and definately
"uptown."
Keith Henson
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Loudon Briggs
>Sorry Marc.
>
>Joe Williams is NOT a blues shouter. He is a singer and definately
>"uptown."
I guess that when he's "Going To Chicago" he's really just heading
"uptown."
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Ken Jones
the radio -- it's from the CD Child's Play by the Robert Miller Group
with vocal by Jon Lucien. Not sure how this compares to the other
versions.
Thanks,
Ken
Howard Peirce
> > A well-known singer (I'm quite surprised you don't know of him), what
> > one might call a "blues shouter". Most famous for his work with Count
> > Basie a lot.
>
> Sorry Marc.
>
> Joe Williams is NOT a blues shouter. He is a singer and definately
> "uptown."
I'd say it's a judgement call. IMO, Williams is heavily indebted to the "blues shouter" tradition. He's
certainly not a "crooner," of the type that traditionally dominate jazz singing. Yet he's got the chops
and sensitivity to handle ballads and standards with aplomb. Ain't nothing uptown about that wicked yodel
on "no-o-o-o-body loves me, no-o-o-o-body seems to care," on "Everyday I Have the Blues."
I hear very little crooning in his approach.
HP
Bob Dierker
Ken Jones wrote in message ...
Marc Sabatella
>Sorry Marc.
>
>Joe Williams is NOT a blues shouter. He is a singer and definately
>"uptown."
Well, I've certainly heard him shout some blues.
Keith Henson
>
> Keith Henson wrote:
>
> > > A well-known singer (I'm quite surprised you don't know of him), what
> > > one might call a "blues shouter". Most famous for his work with Count
> > > Basie a lot.
> >
> >
> > Joe Williams is NOT a blues shouter. He is a singer and definately
> > "uptown."
>
> certainly not a "crooner," of the type that traditionally dominate jazz singing. Yet he's got the chops
> and sensitivity to handle ballads and standards with aplomb. Ain't nothing uptown about that wicked yodel
> on "no-o-o-o-body loves me, no-o-o-o-body seems to care," on "Everyday I Have the Blues."
>
> I hear very little crooning in his approach.
>
> HP
Heavily indebeted to the blues tradition, yes, of course. Williams said
he learned his "yells" from chicago blues musicians. But he sang in a
very musical style and was much more than a blues shouter or blues
singer. Though known mostly for his signature tune and his blues singing
with basie, he preferred superior standards and original material.
I've had the honor of playing with Joe Williams and so I wanted to make
sure I wasn't losing my memory so I looked him up in The Penguin Guide
just to see how they described him:
"...Williams followed on from Billy Eckstine in bringing a new
sophistication to the black male singer's stance...the great mellifluous
baritone is already there (the savoy recordings)"
"Uptown" to me is a synonym for sophisticated and Joe Williams is that.
Marc Sabatella
>Heavily indebeted to the blues tradition, yes, of course. Williams said
>he learned his "yells" from chicago blues musicians. But he sang in a
>very musical style and was much more than a blues shouter or blues
>singer. Though known mostly for his signature tune and his blues singing
>with basie, he preferred superior standards and original material.
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply he was "only" a blues shouter. But it
seemed the most likely term to trigger Brian's memory, as I was assuming
he was familiar with Williams but had merely forgotten the name.
Howard Peirce
> Heavily indebeted to the blues tradition, yes, of course. Williams said
> he learned his "yells" from chicago blues musicians. But he sang in a
> very musical style and was much more than a blues shouter or blues
> singer. Though known mostly for his signature tune and his blues singing
> with basie, he preferred superior standards and original material.
I guess I'm thinking more historically--the classic dialectic between crooners and shouters. Williams owes
more to Jimmy Rushing than to Bing Crosby. But I would agree wholeheartedly that he raised that tradition to a
new height of sophistication.
Charlie Parker is another instance of a blues musician raising the blues tradition to new heights. (If I'm not
careful, I'll start sounding like Albert Murray.) I've been listening heavily to the original Savoy recording
of Red Cross, and Parker's opening gambit is so f*ckin' bluesy it hurts. Running the tune down with my
quartet, I thought it would interesting to start my chorus with Bird's lick--kind of an homage. Before I knew
it, we'd all shifted to a 12-bar form--no kidding. That's how powerful that lick is. Thank God it was
rehearsal.
> "Uptown" to me is a synonym for sophisticated and Joe Williams is that.
No argument here.
HP
Garth10523
potential redundancy.. but in my long listening to various vocal versions of
this tune... the BEST vocal treatment is by an relatively obscure singer, FRANK
MINION on his Bethlehem album, "The Soft Land of Make Believe" . The problem is
that the sut is misnamed "Flamenco Sketches," and then the error is further
compounded by it being called "Flamenco Blues" in he liner notes.. but it IS
"All Blues" and a great version... with Jimmy Jones, p; Kenny Burrel, g; Ed
Thigpen, dr; and Joe Benjamin, b.
Anyone else know this album?
Garth Jowett,
Houston.
Jack Woker
This was mentioned. This is mistitled because the listing on the back
of "Kind of Blue" was in the wrong order for many years. Interestingly,
Minion's accompanists on this, and "So What", are Bill Evans, Paul
Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb, the same three who are on the originals. Is it
possible that they did not know the correct title? Perhaps the titles
on KOB were assigned later - a common scenario, of course.
jack
Saddik7
with primo scat on her first CD "Live at the Jazz Workshop" on Mad-Kat Records.
If it was a woman singing it may well have been her...
Heath Watts
All Blues? I like it.
Heath