221 Ladies of Jazz
A very nice and laid-back collection of players and singers from the last fifty years, all ladies performing in the jazz genre. Assembled by Hugh, who reckons it’s one of his best, and the team agreed.
Preshow
Described by Hugh as ‘Great vocal legends of the music up to the early sixties’
Title | Artists | Album | Year |
Frenesi | Eydie Gorme | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15: Wild Cool & Swingin’ Too | 1997 |
The Boy From Ipanema | Peggy Lee | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15 | 1997 |
Lucky Day | Judy Garland | Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby! | 2002 |
Cry Me A River | Barbra Streisand | Just For The Record… [Disc 1] | 1991 |
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby | Dinah Washington | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15 | 1997 |
Daddy | Julie London | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15 | 1997 |
On The Sunny Side Of The Street | Keely Smith | Ultra-Lounge: Vegas Baby! | 2002 |
Perdido | Sarah Vaughan | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15 | 1997 |
It Had Better Be Tonight | Lena Horne | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15 | 1997 |
I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues) | Billie Holiday | All Of Me | 1996 |
Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai) | Ella Fitzgerald | Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 15 | 1997 |
Main show
Superstition | Shirley Scott | Superstition | 1973 |
Someday My Prince Will Come | Cassandra Wilson | Traveling Miles | 1999 |
You Won’t Forget Me | Shirley Horn | You Won’t Forget Me | 1991 |
Black Crow | Diana Krall | Girl in the Other Room | 2004 |
Witchcraft | Liane Carroll | Up And Down | 2011 |
Love Dance | Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour, Chick Corea, Diane Schuur, Tom Scott | GRP Super Live In Concert [Disc 1] | 1988 |
Swing of the Time | Norrbotten Big Band | Everything in Between | 2018 |
Cravo E Canela | Flora Purim | Flora Purim sings Milton Nascimento | 2000 |
Garota De Ipanema | Eliane Elias | Blue Note Plays Bossa Nova | 2008 |
Don’t Know Why | Norah Jones | Come Away with Me | 2002 |
Wild Is Love | Cécile McLorin Salvant | The Window | 2018 |
Home is Where the Hatred is | Charenée Wade | Offering: The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson | 2015 |
The Trolley Song (Live At Bradshaw’s Great American Music Hall, San Francisco/1979) | Betty Carter | Betty Carter’s Finest Hour | 2003 |
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most | Clare Teal | Twelve O`clock Tales | 2016 |
Relentless Mind | Jihaye Lee Orchestra | Daring Mind | 2021 |
Poem in G Minor (Live) | Jessica Williams | Live at Yoshi’s, Vol. 1 | 2016 |
All In Love Is Fair | Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia | Lady Saxophone | 1996 |
Anyone Can Whistle | Nancy Wilson With Terence Blanchard | Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim | 1995 |
Wild Is the Wind | Nina Simone | Point of No Return | 1993 |
Misterioso | The Carla Bley Band | That’s The Way I Feel Now | 1984 |
Postshow
All Flights cancelled | Hedvig Mollestad Trio | Ding Dong You’re Dead | 2020 |
Blame | Natalie Greffel | Para Todos | 2020 |
Caravan | Hiromi | Hiromi’s Sonic Bloom: Beyond | 2008 |
Lost Dimensions | ESINAM | Shapes in Twilinght of Infinity | 2021 |
Arawak Uhuru | Sélène Saint Aimé | Potomitan | 2022 |
Formwele 10 | Esperanza Spalding | Songwrights Apothecary Lab | 2021 |
Yesterday is Here | Rosalie Genay | Realms | 2013 |
Moonchild | Natacha Atlas | Strange Days | 2019 |