- Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan: Groovenotes shares a list of the 50 most popular jazz vocal recordings of all time, as determined by the listeners of NPR Music, Jazz24.org, and KPLU in Seattle. Among the top 50 are several songs by artists followed on this site:
- Billie Holiday, whose "Strange Fruit" topped the list. Other songs on the list by "Lady Day" include “All of Me,” “Autumn in New York,” “Fine and Mellow,” “God Bless the Child,” “Good Morning Heartache,” “Lover Man,” and “My Man.”
- Ella Fitzgerald: “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Blue Skies,” “How High the Moon,” “Mack the Knife,” “Someone to Watch Over Me," and “Summertime.”
- Sarah Vaughan: “Lullaby of Birdland” and “Misty.”
- Louis Armstrong: “You Go to My Head,” “Black and Blue,” and “What a Wonderful World.”
- Eubie Blake: On February 7, his birthday, Eubie Blake was the Jazz Musician of the Day at All About Jazz.
- Miles Davis: John Fordham reviews the Miles Davis Quintet's album, Live In Europe 1969 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2, at The Guardian. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Bill Evans: Marc Myers shares a video of Bill Evans playing at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway in September 1980 at JazzWax.
- Wayne Shorter: Several reviews of the new Wayne Shorter album, Without a Net, have appeared. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Nate Chinen at The New York Times.
- John Eyles at All About Jazz.
- Peter Hum at The Ottawa Citizen.
- Mark F. Turner at All About Jazz.
- Wayne Shorter: According to Peter Hum at The Ottawa Citizen, a Wayne Shorter documentary is being planned.
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