After years of singing other people's songs, bandleader and co-founder Ginny Carr has crafted a tightly harmonized album of originals.

Several years later, when Austin left to head the music department at Contra Costa College, Karst began singing for Austin’s husband, Roger Letson, who was in charge of the vocal jazz program at ...

Jazz singing has come a long way since its early days in New Orleans. From soulful blues to rapid-fire scatting, the art of vocal jazz has grown into a rich and varied musical landscape. Many ...

The vocal jazz tradition extends back to the early decades of the 20th century. Jazz singing was the last of four interdependent American musical ideas to develop (the others being instrumental jazz, ...

The 59-year old Souter came to jazz-singing late. Raised in a single-parent home in London, singing bonded her with her mother. For years, she sang folk songs as diversion while raising her own son.

Legendary, Detroit-born jazz singer Sheila Jordan died at her home in New York City on Aug. 11, at the age of 96.

Many jazz horn players cite vocalists as their main influences, while many vocalists draw inspiration from feisty instrumentalists. Some of the most heralded jazz artists can display lyricism both ...

Carol Sloane I Never Went Away (2001) The blueprint for a perfect vocal jazz CD: Take a collection of superb, seldom heard songs, recruit a group of world class jazz musicians, find a charismatic ...

Billie Holiday was a pre-eminent jazz vocalist, widely appreciated during her heyday in the 1930s through the 1950s.

“Vocal jazz takes individual work and work as a group to really focus in and listen to each other,” Stone adds. “There’s always a lot involved in maintaining a healthy voice and full vocal technique ...

Jazz Singing: America`s Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond By Will Friedewald Scribner`s, 437 pages, $29.95 From Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong to Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra… ...

Jay Clayton, Vocal Innovator in Jazz and Beyond, Is Dead at 82 She sparred with avant-garde instrumentalists and used electronics to alter and extend her vocal palette.