| King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings CD (1954)
Bop Vocal songs
$8.69 Eddie Jefferson may have been the first musician to set and sing lyrics to famous jazz solos, but it was King Pleasure who scored a 1952 hit with "Moody Mood's For Love." This wild burst of bop vocalese was based
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| Eddie Jefferson Jazz Singer CD (1965)
Bop Vocal songs
$10.15 Recorded in New York between 1959 and 1965. Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather.
Before Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and long before the Manhattan Transfer, there was Eddie Jefferson, a pioneer of vocalese--the practice of putting words to melodies based on
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| Eddie Jefferson Letter From Home CD (1962)
Bop Vocal songs
$9.89 The king of vocalese (the putting of words to pre-existing jazz instrumentals) further cemented his reputation with this fine 1961 Riverside date. Eddie Jefferson truly approached his singing with the mind of a horn player, paying particular attention to phrasing,
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| Eddie Jefferson Body And Soul CD (1968)
Bop Vocal music
$8.75 Eddie Jefferson's 1968 album BODY AND SOUL reflects the year it was recorded. In contrast to Jefferson's early recordings, which focused primarily on swing, bop, and cool jazz material, BODY AND SOUL features vocalese interpretations of the post-bop and soul-jazz
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| Eddie Jefferson Come Along With Me CD (1969)
Bop Vocal album
$9.89 Vocalist Eddie Jefferson (the founder of vocalese) is in top form throughout this outstanding set, a CD reissue of the original LP. There is a liberal amount of solo space for trumpeter Bill Hardman, altoist Charles McPherson and pianist Barry
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| King Pleasure Golden Days CD (1960)
Bop Vocal songs
$9.65 Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1991, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
This CD reissue (one of three King Pleasure sets that together contain all of his recordings) has an LP-length session from 1960 (originally put out by HiFi Jazz) that is
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| Bebop Singers CD (1999)
Bop Vocal album
$9.65 Drawing almost entirely upon the Prestige archives, with one detour to the Hifijazz label, Fantasy has managed to touch most of the bases of early-'50s vocalese on
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| Harry "The Hipster" Gibson Everybody's Crazy But Me CD (1986)
Bop Vocal music
$12.09 |
| Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Hottest New Group In Jazz CDs (1996) Bonus Tracks
Bop Vocal album
$15.95 |
| Swingle Singers Anyone For Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi? CD (1986)
Bop Vocal music
$9.59 |
| East Coast Jive CD (1994)
Bop Vocal album
$14.79 |
| King Pleasure Moody's Mood For Love CD (1990)
$9.19 |
| Swingle Singers Place Vendome CD (2007)
$13.95 |
| Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing A Song Of Basie CD (1957) Remastered
$10.79 |
| Swingle Singers Jazz Sebastian Bach Vol. 1 CD (1963) Remastered
$8.05 |