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