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Billie Holiday and Etta James: The Lives and Legacies of the Famous Jazz Singers by Charles River Editors (Paperback / softback, 2016)

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*Includes pictures *Includes the artists' quotes about their lives *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents If Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it. A wave of great jazz and jazz/pop crossover artists swept over the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, generating a golden age for the genre. This wondrous jazz era was well represented by both black and white master artists, men, women, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and Billie Holiday has stood the test of time as well as any, despite struggling with an environment that easily could have doomed such aspirations. Emerging from such a powerful group of talented vocalists was t easy. The woman who has come to represent a model of great, instinctive jazz singing came from where, had thing, and virtually had one who was truly helpful in her background. She was raw and untrained but went forward regardless, with limited and quirky vocal gifts, the likes of which had never been heard in the highest circles of jazz. This especially was true among women, where perfection of phrasing and a smooth style of delivery stood as the unspoken guidelines of vocal success. No female counterpart of Louis Armstrong, one of Holiday's idols, was ever going to survive in the female jazz world for long, except perhaps as a velty. It was t only hard-headed persistence that made Holiday a preeminent female jazz vocalist but a self-education, with the core belief that to sound like ather singer was to t make music at all. Singing only from her deepest instinct and accepting one as a literal model, she magically changed the paradigm for jazz singing by refusing to do anything the way it was expected to be done, or by swinging in any way that did t come authentically from her own artistry. Holiday rewrote the rules of jazz singing by using her voice t to imitate other singers, but by taking on the style of movement and sound common to jazz instruments. On top of that, she took the moderately employed practice of singing off the beat and brought it to the rhythmic forefront of virtually everything she sang. Holiday could subtly twist [the] rhythm in a way never before heard, in the manner of an instrumental soloist. Grateful to Louis Armstrong as a model, any song she took up was transformed rhythmically, tonally, and emotionally, with her light and untrained instrument, which despite its clarity could wield a wounded poignancy . Etta James, the legendary jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, and soul singer, was perfectly positioned to reign as the supreme artist in the emerging soul genre of the '40s and '50s in America. No one ever doubted her talent, the highly distinctive and versatile nature of her voice, or her drive to succeed, and yet, she has been woefully overlooked in the history of indigeus rock and blues music in the United States. She is famous and recognized for several iconic hits with which she is eternally associated, such as I'd Rather Go Blind and At Last, but her place in the pantheon of great soul artists is unsteady and t always instantly recognizable by those outside of a kwledgeable group of devotees. For the rest of soul music's listeners, mention of her name will result in a hasty inclusion into the inner circle of leading artists, as though James had been momentarily forgotten. Once the object of focus, however, she is revered as one of the titans of the genre, and those who had allowed her to slip from their minds are immediately reawakened to her powerful vocal and interpretive gifts. Such a vague position within the history of the form is partly due to a difficulty James experienced in crossing over to the white audience when others of the same genre were succeeding brilliantly at garnering a new, mixed race fan base.

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10
1541055233
ISBN-13
9781541055230
eBay Product ID (ePID)
232207076

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Format
Paperback / Softback
Language
English
Author(s)
Charles RIVER Editors
Date of Publication
12/12/2016
Format Details
Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Subject
Biography: the Arts
Imprint
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of Publication
United States

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