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Post by Chic Singa on Jul 2, 2004 17:29:30 GMT 10
Some Jazz musicians of note:
Bobby McFerrin
Ella Fitzgerald
Martin Breeze
Betty Carter
Sarah Vaughn
Alison Wedding
Michelle Nicolle
Gian Slater
Emma Gilmartin
Jon Hendricks
Mark Murphy
Linda Cable
surely these people qualify as musicians first and foremost right?
Sorry dunno many vocal musos from anywhere than Melbourne!
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Post by isaacs on Jul 2, 2004 19:13:31 GMT 10
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Post by me on Jul 2, 2004 22:17:24 GMT 10
Kristin Berardi is an amazing Queensland vocalist. She's a fantastic improviser and musician, incredible chops but at the same time so emotive and touching and she sounds like no one else. Kristin's original tunes are featured on the West End Composers Collectives recent CD and she has also just released a duet album with her long time collaborator, pianist Gemma Turvey. She is currently in New York recording.
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Post by Vick Kee on Jul 3, 2004 1:57:08 GMT 10
I agree with Mr Isaacs and Me - there are some musicians who play voice, it is true.
Chic Singa you are not alone on that point. Can't wait to hear these two.
Need some more blokes though, come on some of you Aussie musicians put down that instrument in your hands and use the one in your body. And I don't mean your knob, as Cartman would have said, bless him.
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Post by Not Michelle Nicolle on Jul 3, 2004 12:48:53 GMT 10
I swear on my OJF oath that Ms Nicolle told me this joke:
Q: "How do you know when there is a chick singer at the door?"
A: "She buzzes the security phone, you buzz back, but she just stands there at the entrance looking puzzed cos she doesn't know when to come in."
This was joke delivered with lots of laughter! AApparently, it is an old joke.
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Post by Kenny on Jul 3, 2004 13:29:15 GMT 10
Uh oh ... where's Julie?  |
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Post by VHB on Jul 3, 2004 14:56:42 GMT 10
Ok, in the interest of gender balance I will 'out' my dear departed Dad.
Old style cabaret floor show entertainer Sinatra-ish vocalist, Roland Bonet. Worked a lot with people like Bob Venier, Alan 'Buci' Deak, (his best friend) and others including Gil Askey and Bob Sedegreen.
The naughty Mr Sedegreen used to do mean (but funny - sorry Dad) things to my darling father: for example not stick to the chart at all and do some totally whacky intro and my poor father would sometimes get a bit lost. Which I confess sometimes used to make me cringe a little bit, or giggle, but hey, he was my Dad! Respect!
Roland Bonet was an entertainer first and a musician second. He had a lovely tone and could carry a tune, but he was an Entertainer! Very different to today where you almost need regular liposuction and bo tox to make money from 'music'.
He was a good bandleader in terms of getting regular work, getting decent rider deals for the bands and being a magnet for an audience.
I'm proud to be his daughter and I miss you Dad, heaps. Can't wait to see you and Buci again.
bon soir pour maintenant
ciao bello xxx
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Post by Kenny on Jul 3, 2004 15:15:46 GMT 10
My Dad prolly started something by having a few Louis Armstrong and Dave Brubeck LPs lying about the place, even if at the time they rated a poor second to the Smalls Faces and the Equals. Later on, long after I had split and his second-wind infatuation with motorcycles continued, he had several copies of Dark Side Of The Moon secreted around the South island so's he could listen to it wherever his two wheels took him. He even rode from Dunedin to Wellington to see Fleetwood Mac. And he was also VERY, VERY big on Neil Diamond, travelling with me Mum to Sydney a couple of times to see him sing about seagulls and stuff. He had no opinion one way or the other about vocals in jazz, regardless of gender.  |
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Post by VHB on Jul 12, 2004 22:05:38 GMT 10
I used to LOVE the Small Faces, but I was only 11 at the time. I also loved Pink Floyd but I think I was thirteen then. Neil Diamond wrote some good pop tunes but I never got inot his versions.
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Post by Kenny on Jul 17, 2004 16:11:00 GMT 10
Speaking of which, a colleague sent me the following joke/yarn this week. (This only works if you know beforehand that by almost all accounts, Steve Marriott was a complete prick ...)
In 1968, Steve Marriott was asked to record a message for a young Small Faces fan who had been involved in an accident and had slipped into a coma. The usual thing - it was thought that a recorded message from the lad's hero played continuously at his bedside would help him out of the coma.
Marriott was very reluctant to do this and resisted for days. Finally he relented and recorded the message. In an incredibly loud shouting voice Marriott recorded: "Wake up, you c**t!!"
Apparently the fan, now in his 40s, carries the tape with him wherever he goes.
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Post by Val the Pro on Jul 22, 2004 10:40:40 GMT 10
Steve Marriott died young too. He had a kind of husky bluesy voice, I remember him from another band a trio I think but I can't remember what they were called, formed after the Small Faces. I had one of their albumns on vinyl (Live at the Filmore) in the 70s. They did a lot of blues stuff i think or was the Ten Years After? (Wheres me walkin frame? ) That is so funny about See You N T. KW. And it worked, so someone should tell the Starlight Foundation. ;D  |
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Post by Kenny on Jul 22, 2004 11:14:46 GMT 10
Humble Pie, with Peter Frampton. Rocking the Fillmore was their biggie album.
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Post by VHB on Jul 22, 2004 21:40:24 GMT 10
Coincidentally Peter Frampton was in the tabloids yesterday - he is in litigation with a swimwear company who have made a bikini with his face on it with the text "Baby I love your Waves". Apparently he objects to his face being all over some strange woman's breasts (odd for a bloke, can't be hetero surely) or that the words to his hit song have been altered as the original title was "Baby I love your Way"  |
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