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Milla Jovovich photographed by Al Pereira, 1994.

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Cheek To Cheek

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Scott Masters - Boys Town (1985)

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LADY. GAGA 🔥🥵

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Lil’ Kim on the Howard Stern show in 2000 | Draw By Brian Palubiak

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Veronica Webb by Gilles Bensimon for Elle US - October 1990

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What is Singing? (cont.)

What is Singing? (cont.) & How will Vocalists be Judged?

Some more vocabulary that will be used actively on the site are below.

Vocal Fach- A classification given to a singer based on the size, passaggio & quality of their voice, with consideration to where the given vocalist is most comfortable.

Vocal Range- The lowest sung note a vocalist can hit to the highest sung note a vocalist can hit. Any register except vocal fry can count. Notes have to be sung, they cannot just be screams. To identify notes, the scientifc pitch notation system will be used (note + number representing the octave— ex: C4, middle C). The order from lowest to highest within one octave is C, D, E, F, G, A, B. Including flat and sharp notes, the blog will use: C C# D Eb E F F# G G# A Bb B. (The flat sign isn’t actually a b, it’s ♭. “b” is just easier to use).

Passaggio- Where a given singer’s voice “breaks”/transitions into the next register. (ex: chest voice to mix, mix to head voice).

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Sarah Vaughan // (In My) Solitude

I had never heard this Sarah Vaughan version before. This past month I have been listening to Billie Holiday’s version and the Duke’s original instrumental. Idea’s for a new mix are forming.

“As I will then no more a wanderer be Let them with fondness store my memory And Lucifer the while Above the pine, good comrade mine Will on me gently smile? In mournful mood The sea sing sad refrain… And I be earth again In solitude..”

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Sarah Vaughan scats to a bluesy loop. #goals

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Tuesday: morning glow

There’s respectful ladies in jazz, there’s Ella Fitzgerald, there’s Billie Holiday, and there’s Sarah Vaughan. In the 50’s she’d spread her carrier and her three octaves virtuosity alongside skilled jazz musicians as Charlie Parker or Dizzie, singing standards tunes (“My Funny Valentine” ou “Night in Tunisia”). 

Today it’s 1972, under co-direction of Michel Legrand we follow the path of a ballad, entitled Just A Little Loving, leaded by the one whose nickname used to be The Divine, and whose style is made of bebop et de scat.

The overture is quiet, in a spring cool morning, having couple of coffee, a deep breath, then an another through some piano notes before heading to Sarah Vaughan’s velvet voice, vibrato and rythmic.

A keyboard cloud gently curves the walk, under the cares of generous strings and horns… a big band orchestration, gorgeous an firmly mastered parsing one by one each particle of this sweetness.

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Mardi : lumière matinale 

Il y a de grandes dames dans le jazz… il y a Ella Fitzgerald, il y a Billie Holiday, et puis il y a Sarah Vaughan. Après guerre elle lancera sa carrière et sa virtuosité aux trois octaves aux cotés de grands comme Charlie Parker, Dizzie pour des non moins grands standards du jazz chantée (“My Funny Valentine” ou “Night in Tunisia”). 

Aujourd'hui nous sommes en 1972, sous la co-orchestration de Michel Legrand on emprunte le chemin d'une ballade, Just A Little Loving, derrière celle qu'on surnommait The Divine et dont le style s'est fait de bebop, scat.

L'ouverture paisible, dans la fraîcheur d'un matin de juin, on prends deux cafés, une respiration, puis une autre avec quelques notes de piano avant de laisser tourner la tête vers la voix de velours, vibrato et rythmée de Sarah Vaughan. 

Un nuage de clavier courbe doucement la marche, sous de bienveillantes cordes, de saisissant cuivres… L'orchestration est big band, riche et maîtrisée pour laisser filtrer chaque particule de cette douceur…

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Know that I love Sarah Vaughan, her effortless rifts from sweet lows to tender highs and her willingness to experiment. Here she is singing Maria - not strictly speaking a jazz cover, but hey, lady of jazz. 

One day the theme of the day will be covers of Maria. A search for Maria on my iTunes brings up too many results.