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In the second part of my interview with Patsy Moore, we discuss her music and vision since leaving Nashville for LA and how her music literally saves her through broken relationship and her ongoing bout with cancer. Her music credits post-Nashville including working with contemporary jazz stars, Dianne Reeves and Billy Childs. The tracks sampled in this episode, “The Most Private Confessions of Saint Clair” and “The Curve”, are from Patsy’s latest release, The Most Private Confession of Saint Clair, available at Amazon and eMusic.

More on Patsy Moore can be found at her website, http://www.patsymoore.com

To hear part two of my interview with Patsy, click here: http://www.mandrakesocietyradio.com/2009/10/22/podcast-interview-with-patsy-moore-pt-2/

Ladies of Jazz from 1930 to 1990

The 1930s
Ella Fitzgerald
Adelaide Hall
Annette Hanshaw
Belle Baker
Connee Boswell
Ethel Waters
Helen Humes
Helen Ward
Helen Morgan
Helen Kane
Hilde Hildebrand
Ivie Anderson
Josephine Baker
Lee Wiley
Lee Morse
Lil Armstrong
Mabel Mercer
Martha Tilton
Mae West
Mildred Bailey
Pola Negri
Peter Igelhoff
Ruth Etting
Valaida Snow

The 1940s
Alberta Hunter
Anita O'Day
Bea Wain
Billie Holiday
Dinah Shore
Doris Day
Helen Forrest
Helen Humes
Helen O'Connell
Ivie Anderson
Jeri Southern
Jo Stafford
Joya Sherrill
Kay Davis
Margaret Whiting
Marie Ellington
Mary Ann McAll
Maxine Sullivan
Margot Hielscher
Peggy Lee
Sylvia Syms
Teddy Grace

The 1950s
Anita O'Day
Betty Carter
Betty Roche
Carmen McRae
Chris Connor
Dinah Washington
Ella Fitzgerald
Ernestine Anderson
Ethel Ennis
Helen Humes
Jo Stafford
June Christy
Kay Starr
Lee Wiley
Lucy Reed
Morgana King
Patricia Bredin
Peggy King
Peggy Lee
Sarah Vaughan
Sheila Jordan

The 1960s
Anita Traversi
Aretha Franklin
Annie Ross
Annie-Marie Moss
Betty Carter
Carmen McRae
Chris Connor
Cleo Laine
Ella Fitzgerald
Ernestine Anderson
Etta Jones
Etta James
Helen Humes
Jo Stafford
Lena Horne
Lorez Alexandria
Maryilyn Moore
Morgana King
Nina Simone
Peggy Lee
Sarah Vaughan
Sheila Jordan
Shirley Horn
Teddi King

The 1970s
Ann Burton
Barbara Lea
Betty Carter
Carmen McRae
Carol Sloane
Cleo Laine
Diane Schuur
Ella Fitzgerald
Ernestine Anderson
Esther Phillips
Etta Jones
Etta James
Flora Purim
Gloria Lynne
Helen Merrill
Jeanne Lee
Lena Horne
Margaret Whiting
Marlene VerPlanck
Maxine Sullivan
Meridith d'Ambrosio
Millie Vernon
Minnie Riperton
Nancy Harrow
Nancy Wilson
Nina Simone
Patti Austin
Phoebe Snow
Sandra King
Sarah Vaughan
Sheila Jordan
Shirley Horn
Tania Maria
Roberta Flack

The 1980s
Ann Hampton Callaway
Annette Sanders
Betty Carter
Cheryl Bentyne
Chris Connor
Daryl Ryce
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Della Griffin
Diane Schuur
Dianne Reeves
Eartha Kitt
Eden Atwood
Ethel Ennis
Gloria Lynne
Helen Merrill
Janis Siegal
Karrin Allyson
Laura Fygi
Lena Horne
Marlena Shaw
Mary Stallings
Nancy Kelly
Nancy Wilson
Nina Simone
Nnenna Freelon
Sarah Vaughan
Shirley Horn
Sussanah Mccorkle

The 1990s
Ann Hampton Callaway
Annette Sanders
Carmen Bradford
Cassandra Wilson
Claire Martin
Cleo Laine
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Eden Atwood
Ernestine Anderson
Karrin Allyson
Laura Fygi
Nancy Wilson
Nancy Kelly
Nancy York
Nnenna Freelon
Susannah McCorkle

A cantora de jazz Dianne Reeves se apresenta hoje no Via Funchal e promete show memorável

Por: Felipe Cruz

A cantora de jazz Dianne Reeves é considerada nos Estados Unidos a herdeira direta de Sarah Vaughan e Ella Fitzgerald. Com sua voz marcante, ganhou por três anos consecutivos o prêmio Grammy na categoria vocal. Mais do que isso, Dianne foi pupila de Sérgio Mendes e começou sua carreira na década de 80, como cantora do grupo que acompanhava o músico. Por isso, sempre que vem ao Brasil, ela se sente em casa e promete ao público paulistano que o show que fará hoje, às 21h30, no Via Funchal, será memorável.

O espetáculo abre a temporada 2009 da série Jazz All Nights. A série começou em 2007 e já trouxe artistas como Madeleine Peyroux, Toots Thielemans, Swingle Singers, Teresa Salgueiro, Bobby McFerrin e Freddy Cole.

Ela fala da ligação com o Brasil em entrevista ao JT: “Uma amiga me disse que Sergio Mendes procurava cantores para a sua próxima turnê. Fiz uma audição e fui selecionada. Cantei algumas canções em um português terrível. Mas foi com o coração”, lembra Dianne. “Até hoje eu não falo português, mas acho que é a língua mais bonita para se cantar. Amo o Brasil e ponto final.”

Nos shows que ela fará em São Paulo, e também no Rio de Janeiro e Porto Alegre, a cantora terá como músico convidado o guitarrista brasileiro Romero Lubambo, considerado pela revista especializada Jazziz um dos melhores do mundo no gênero.

A inspiração para as suas canções, no entanto, vão além do Brasil. Dianne se diz muito influenciada pelos sons latinos caribenhos e pelas músicas africanas. “Meu som tem um sentimento de world music”, diz a cantora.

Dianne já cantou diversas vezes por aqui, mas esta será a primeira em que vem acompanhada de sua própria banda. “É o meu trabalho e são as minhas músicas. Acho que é uma oportunidade de mostrar aos brasileiros como eu sou e os sons que me inspiraram”, diz. O show, segundo ela, será uma mistura de elementos da cultura africana, com harmonias mais elaboradas. “É uma apresentação simples, mas o público vai sentir a textura do meu som.”

Dianne Reeves começou a cantar muito cedo. Nascida em uma família de músicos, ainda criança, aos 11 anos, ela já tinha se decidido por ser cantora profissional. Antes de cantar com Sérgio Mendes, Dianne foi descoberta pelo trompetista Clark Terry, em 1976.

Em 1984, iniciou uma parceria com Harry Belafonte, enquanto paralelamente organizava uma carreira solo. No cinema, ela já contracenou com George Clooney em Boa Noite e Boa Sorte e pelo trabalho recebeu uma indicação ao Oscar.

Dianne Reeves

Having cleaned my recommendations of the bands Last.fm seems to think I was listening to (they can't do anything right at the moment, it seems), it's time for some more of these. Two sets only this weekend, which makes sense since I did four last time.

1. Corrupted - "Si Mismo Defensa"
I'm thinking this would be the Japanese sludge act who sing in Spanish. This isn't overly good stuff, sounding more like underdone doom than good sludge.

2. Gentle Giant - "Dog's Life"
A spot of proper prog, and it's lovely to hear real prog instead of the garbage people think is prog. This track is a bit on the poppy side, but the vocal arrangement is still clearly in that famous style. Goodish.

3. Godflesh - "Head Dirt"
One of those absurdly influential bands, and the one that gave birth to Jesu. This is a very industrial-sounding track, with some muffled vocals. It's not too shabby, but methinks Godflesh is perhaps more important for what it caused, rather than how it sounded.

4. Sherwin Gardner - "You"
Frankly, there are better Christian reggae vocalists than Sherwin - several thousand, in fact. Still, in isolation he's not too bad. This track is very disjointed-sounding, with fragments of catchy melodies around the place, but nothing consistent. A common problem for him.

5. OK! Ryos - "Co Era So"
Some music from New Caledonia, of all places. This opens with lots of acapella singing, before breaking into a sort of Pacific/reggae sound. I'm not sure what language the vocals are in, but whatever language it is works perfectly. I can picture people swaying and clapping along even as I write this. Great stuff.

6. Ornette Coleman - "Law Years"
The man who gave us "Free Jazz". This is a very claustrophobic-sounding track, led by the bass rather than Coleman's own saxophone, but it's not as relentlessly experimental as some of his work can be, which makes it much more accessible. When the master appears on sax, though, he brings in some lovely melodies, albeit still with that slightly odd style of his.

7. Dianne Reeves - "Pretend"
The vocalist from that terrible film "Good Night and Good Luck", and I think this is actually a track from that album. She's got a terrific jazz voice, and the arrangement here lets her demonstrate that to very good effect. I like this, even though it's not what I'd normally listen to.

8. Swarm of the Lotus - "Vertigo"
Very noisy mathcore-y sounding stuff. Nothing to see here.

9. Eric Dolphy - "Hat and Beard"
Jazz clarinet, which isn't something you normally hear a lot of. While this is clearly on the avant-garde side of the coin, it's also eminently listenable. There's a very warm tone to it all (well, when there's no squeaking and squawking), and it's surprisingly catchy at times.

10. Forgotten Woods - "Third Eye (New Creature)"
And we finish with some Norwegian black metal, and a band credited as having pioneered the depressive sound. This isn't too bad, but it only seems to come out of one of my two speakers.

1. How did you get into 29?
My ex-boyfriend recorded one of Manic Street Preachers songs in a cd he made for me. These days I probably like them a lot better then he does.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
The first song by Weezer I ever heard was a cover of Say It Ain't So, by Deftones(!).

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
This is hard to tell, because I like At The Drive In mainly because of the melody, not the lyrics. But for some reason, This Night Has Opened My eyes gets me:
oh--you did a good thing
she could have been a poet or she could have been a fool
oh--you did a bad thing
and i'm not happy and i'm not sad

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
The one and only album I've ever heard by Dianne Reeves is the original soundtrack for Goodbye, and good luck.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
I have everything Radiohead recorded in my computer, is it good enough?

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
My favorite song by Fionna Apple is Extraordinary Machine, a song that says a lot about me. I'm really good at beign unconfortable, so I can't stop changing all the time.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
I don't think there is any of Bloc Party's songs that make me sad. They're made for dancing.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
My favorite album by The Strokes is Room on Fire. Don't ask me why, it is just the one I listen to more often.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Primal Scream? Movin' On Up!

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Go with the flow, by Queens of the Stone Age, makes me want to drive around really fast singing out loud.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
LCD Soundsystem's second album: Sound of Silver.

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
The Ideal Crash is such a sexy song!

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
There's a party in the city I live called Johnny Cash's Night. It was really great when my friends Sarah and Roy and Lelira and I got to go together, we had a lot of fun that night.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
iTunes tells me it is The Last High, but I honestly don't remember.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Daft Punk's Digital Love makes me nostalgic, but in a really good way.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
I have never seen Tegan and Sara or My Morning Jacket live. :(

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
I heard everybody talking about Broken Social Scene so I downloaded the album to see if I would like it too, so the first song I ever heard was Our Faces Split The Coast In Half.

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
Superguidis is my favorite brazilian independent band. I like the first album more, but I like both of them.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
I'm sure Jeff Tweedy is my soulmate. I'm sure.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Yes!!! Very recently, Interpol came to Belo Horizonte.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
Sarah and Linie and I were drinking near my house and we stopped talking to sing some of Lilly Allen's songs the good old way dumped and drunk girls do. Great times!

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
The National - Looking for Astronauts

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
A friend of mine sent me Cold War Kid's Hang me Up to Dry in an e-mail I'll save forever.

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
The first one, Nouvelle Vague.

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
I really don't know if a have a favorite song by Architeture in Helsinki. Maybe IT5, because of the video clip.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
I don't remember wich was the first song I heard by Devendra Banhart.

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
My favorite album by Pulp is Different Class.

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
Nada Surf is a very good band, I would say Concrete Bed is my favorite because to find someone you love, you gotta be someone you love.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
I remember watching a lot of Foo Fighters video clips on MTV before ever paying atention to any of their songs, but I don't know wich one was the first.

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
300m.p.h. Outpoor Blues seems to be the song by The White Stripes that I can relate more to.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
I have never seen Kings of Convenience live nor do I ever plan to. I don't even know why they appear so high in my charts.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
When Chet Baker sings Let's Get Lost, I really want to do it (and only for some really good reasons).

33. What is your favorite album by 12?
Dude, you don't ask a Placebo's fan a question like that! hahaha I'm joking, nowadays I like Once More With Feeling the most, probably because I went to see twice this concert.

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Right now, I have absolutely ZERO patience to any of Nancy Sinatra's songs.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Joby Talbot was the responsable for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right? So it means the first song I heard was that one about the dolphins, the first one on the movie.

36. What is your favorite album by 48?
Cypress Hill? Los grandes exitos en español!

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
These questions about seen artists live are anoying me, I don't get to see many of my favorite bands live. Not that Badly Drawn Boy is one of them.

38. What is your favorite song by 36?
Coldplay - The Scientist

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Jamie Cullum is an artist I came to know beacuse he made a cover of one of my favorites band: High and Dry, by Radiohead.

40. What is your favorite album by 7?
It is really hard to say wich of Belle and Sebastian is my favorite, they're one of my favorite bands. In fact, they're the only band that I have a poster in my bedroom.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
No. Camera Obscura was making me so sad, I ended up deleting their songs.

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Neon Bible is actually the only ALBUM by The Arcade Fire, right? So I guess this is it.

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
Since there are two artists in the 24th positions of my top 50, I'll pick a song for each.
My Morning Jacket - Knot Comes Lose
Tegan and Sara - Walking with a Ghost.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
Danny Elfman is the man who does incredible soundtracks for movies and tv, I love his work. Especially the song he made for Six Feet Under, one of my favorite shows.

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Mombojó - Adelaide

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Dancing Shoes always make me jump to the dancefloor. Arctic Monkeys is a pretty happy band, isn't it?

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
This is a difficult answer, because I like Keep it Like a Secret just as much as I like Ancient Melodies to the Future BUT, altought I know it isn't the BEST album by Built to Spill, There's

Nothing Wrong With Love is the one I love the most, probably because it remembers me my good old friend Lipe, who I am going to miss forever.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
Rá! Elliot Smith is a solo artist, I don't even need to think.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
I think that Take me Out was the first song of Franz Ferdinand songs I've heard, on a brazilian radio.

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
I didn't buy any album by Death Cab for Cutie.

Wed 9 Apr – Dianne Reeves

When I first came across Dianne Reeves in the 1980s straight away I became a fan, her voice is as good on record as it is live and this concert at the Barbican Theatre in Central London was no exception.

The quartet of musicians who backed Dianne were excellent and opened up the set with a good 5-10 minute set. Then Ms Reeves entered the stage and from that moment on Dianne's voice filled the venue in a way she only knows how. Performing songs from various albums including Solitude and One For My Baby from the film "Good Night & Good Luck" (I think Dianne has a soft spot for Mr Clooney!), her version of "Just My Imagination" from the new CD "When You Know" and the favourites Better Days and Testify.

Dianne's performance which about lasted 1¾ hours, had the packed theatre captivated and enthralled.

You could argue in today's world of jazz there are fine vocal singers & then on another level there's Dianne Reeves. An excellent concert.

Ladies of Jazz from 1930 to 1990

After listening to one of my father's cds, namely "Jazz ladies", I decided to compile a last.fm-list, and a tag, of jazz ladies. I shamelessly copied the information found here.

The 1930s

Adelaide Hall
Annette Hanshaw
Connee Boswell
Ella Fitzgerald
Ethel Waters
Helen Humes
Helen Ward
Ivie Anderson
Josephine Baker
Lee Wiley
Mabel Mercer
Martha Tilton
Mildred Bailey

The 1940s

Alberta Hunter
Anita O'Day
Bea Wain
Billie Holiday
Dinah Shore
Doris Day
Ella Fitzgerald
Helen Forrest
Helen Humes
Helen O'Connell
Ivie Anderson
Jeri Southern
Jo Stafford
Joya Sherrill
Kay Davis
Margaret Whiting
Marie Ellington
Mary Ann McAll
Maxine Sullivan
Peggy Lee
Sylvia Syms

The 1950s

Anita O'Day
Betty Carter
Betty Roche
Carmen McRae
Chris Connor
Dinah Washington
Ella Fitzgerald
Ernestine Anderson
Ethel Ennis
Helen Humes
Jo Stafford
June Christy
Kay Starr
Lee Wiley
Lucy Reed
Morgana King
Peggy King
Peggy Lee
Sarah Vaughan
Sheila Jordan

The 1960s

Annie Ross
Annie-Marie Moss
Betty Carter
Carmen McRae
Chris Connor
Cleo Laine
Ella Fitzgerald
Ernestine Anderson
Etta Jones
Helen Humes
Jo Stafford
Lena Horne
Lorez Alexandria
Maryilyn Moore
Morgana King
Peggy Lee
Sarah Vaughan
Sheila Jordan
Shirley Horn
Teddi King

The 1970s

Ann Burton
Barbara Lea
Betty Carter
Carmen McRae
Carol Sloane
Cleo Laine
Diane Schuur
Ella Fitzgerald
Ernestine Anderson
Esther Phillips
Etta Jones
Flora Purim
Gloria Lynne
Helen Merrill
Jeanne Lee
Lena Horne
Margaret Whiting
Marlene VerPlanck
Maxine Sullivan
Meridith d'Ambrosio
Millie Vernon
Nancy Harrow
Nancy Wilson
Patti Austin
Phoebe Snow
Sandra King
Sarah Vaughan
Sheila Jordan
Shirley Horn
Tania Maria

The 1980s

Ann Hampton Callaway
Annette Sanders
Betty Carter
Cheryl Bentyne
Chris Connor
Daryl Ryce
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Della Griffin
Diane Schuur
Dianne Reeves
Eartha Kitt
Eden Atwood
Ethel Ennis
Gloria Lynne
Helen Merrill
Janis Siegal
Karrin Allyson
Laura Fygi
Lena Horne
Marlena Shaw
Mary Stallings
Nancy Kelly
Nancy Wilson
Nina Simone
Nnenna Freelon
Sarah Vaughan
Shirley Horn
Sussanah Mccorkle

The 1990s

Ann Hampton Callaway
Annette Sanders
Carmen Bradford
Cassandra Wilson
Claire Martin
Cleo Laine
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Eden Atwood
Ernestine Anderson
Karrin Allyson
Laura Fygi
Nancy Wilson
Nancy Kelly
Nancy York
Nnenna Freelon
Susannah McCorkle

Peter Gabriels song In Your Eyes has ever been one of my "all time favorites". When I recently stumbled on a cover version by Sara Bareilles, I was impressed by her interpretation. She gives the song an independent character without losing the elegance of the original.

Motivated by that, I looked for more covers of this song in my library. Here is the (small) list:

• In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel (original, 1986)
  
• In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel (from "Secret World (Live)")
  
• In Your Eyes (Live) by Sara Bareilles (from the iTunes live session)
  
• In Your Eyes by Dianne Reeves (the cover art of Blue Note)
  
• In Your Eyes by Blues Traveler (live bootleg)

Maybe due to the different genres of the artists or the brilliancy of the interpretation, each tune is a single masterwork.