I mean, she pretty important for the historical of the jazz, and praticly all of song are butiful and if not very good. she first sing all of the masterpiece of jazz we know and love todays :
- after you've gone,
- it had to be you,
- i aint got nobody
- tea for two.
so why anyone didn't talk about her ?
ok it's not the most updated topic but why ?
As a vocalist pre-1925, she was singing into a cone, an inverted megaphone. Her vocals do not transcend the limitations of her voice. Perhaps because she is shouting and not really singing. One octave range maybe one and one half. Perhaps her Brunswick work is better, but I was unable to listen to it. Caruso is using the same limited set-up and is amazing.
Jazz? Blues? More like pop and twenties pop at that.
Think she is as vocally nuanced as Bessie Smith? Same era.
Think she is as memorable as Ella Fitzgerald? Doing the same songs
I liken her work to Ruth Etting
The original microphones 1925, were primitive. They could not get the vocal nuances that even late thirties equipment could.
I don't talk about other twenties vocal artists, either.
Bessie Smith or Ida Cox are the exception.
Twenties artists I do talk about are mostly instrumentalists, like Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Biederbecke, King Oliver and even Louis Armstrong.
They are easy to hear and lots to talk about.
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