Je mehr ich diesen Thread verfolge, desto mehr fällt mir auf, was ich bisher kaum oder gar nicht kenne. Ich freue mich daher auf viele Anregungen.
30 Alben, die mir viel bedeuten, darunter einige Grenzgänger, über die man durchaus diskutieren kann, und ob sie überhaupt Vocal Jazz Alben sind.
FRANK SINATRA – In The Wee Small Hours (Capitol Records, 1955)
BILLIE HOLIDAY – Body And Soul (Verve, 1957)
BILLIE HOLIDAY – Songs For Distingué Lovers (Verve, 1958)
BILLIE HOLIDAY – Lady In Satin (Columbia, 1958)
FRANK SINATRA – Sings For Only The Lonely (Capitol Records, 1958)
ELLA FITZGERALD – Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook (Verve, 1959)
NINA SIMONE – Nina Simone At Town Hall (Colpix, 1960)
NINA SIMONE – Forbidden Fruit (Colpix, 1961)
TONY BENNETT – I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Columbia, 1962)
JIMMY SCOTT – Falling In Love Is Wonderful (Tangerine Records, 1963)
MONICA ZETTERLUND & BILL EVANS – Waltz For Debby (Philips, 1964)
NINA SIMONE – Nina Simone In Concert (Philips, 1964)
STAN GETZ & JOÃO GILBERTO – Getz/Gilberto (Verve, 1964)
FRANK SINATRA – September Of My Years (Reprise Records, 1965)
NINA SIMONE – Let It All Out (Philips, 1965)
NINA SIMONE – Wild Is The Wind (Philips, 1966)
FRANK SINATRA – Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise Records, 1967)
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO – Les Stances À Sophie (Pathé, 1970)
LEON THOMAS – Spirits Known And Unknown (Flying Dutchman, 1970)
JULIE DRISCOLL – 1969 (Polydor, 1971)
CHICK COREA – Return To Forever (ECM, 1972)
TONY BENNETT & BILL EVANS – The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (Fantasy, 1975)
MICHAEL MANTLER – The Hapless Child And Other Inscrutable Stories (WATT Works, 1976)
TONY BENNETT & BILL EVANS – Together Again (Improv Records, 1977)
JONI MITCHELL – Shadows And Light (Asylum, 1980)
ABBEY LINCOLN – A Turtle’s Dream (Verve, 1995)
HELEN MERRILL – You And The Night And The Music (Verve, 1998)
JONI MITCHELL – Both Sides Now (Reprise Records, 2000)
DIANA KRALL – Live In Paris (Verve, 2002)
MÉLANIE DE BIASIO – No Deal (PIAS, 2013)
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...