The great Stan hope on piano my dad . He passed away but I come here to see his amazing natural talent . I never knew how amazing he played . He was just my dad . So magical Etta was the same the whole band . Real music and musicians and artist . They never die because the music lives for ever .
Wow, that's great, Assia. I was wondering who was on the piano. Your father's solo from 2:36-3:43 was amazing. So moving. The perfect interlude. Thanks for sharing!
Etta Jones rates right there with the best that have ever sang a note of jazz. Billie , Sarah, Ella, Betty, she stands along side those women as the best that have ever done it. Miss Jones, a true treasure.
I'm so excited to having heard her for the first time last week. Somehow I missed the boat on this singer. I'm absolutely in love with her singing. I've got a lot of catching up to do.
dont know if anyone gives a damn but if you're stoned like me during the covid times then you can watch all of the latest series on Instaflixxer. I've been binge watching with my gf these days xD
Etta James is truly the most under rated singer in all music history. And this group backing her on this date is extraordinary! And permit me to add a lesson to musicians (mostly horn players): While backing a singer never play on top of their vocals. Houston Person may be the best at this I ever heard. Remember what official singers advise: "I don't sing while your playing so please don't play while I'm singing." And that's the triple truth....RUTH!
I have heard Etta these last few years on a Pandora channel. She stands out for me for a pure, unique and attractive voice. She doesn't overcook it and just let's the beautiful quality of her voice do the work.
One of the greatest Jazz Singers of the World! I miss her....her warm voice, she is really feeling Jazz, and she's really knowing what it means singing Jazz! Thank you for your Gift Etta!
James, I didn't know Etta James was gone. I too like Etta Jones' thing better, but as a blues shouter, Etta James was good as they come. Rather famous name you have there, James. I can never get tired of hearing James Brown. They say Miles listened to him a lot. Kinda beyond me why. But he liked Hendrix and Sly too.
Oh my goodness, that happened WAY too often, Etta Jones and Etta James were in the same era and people got them confused due to the similarity of their names, so Jones did NOT get the recognition she deserved. James sang more, recorded more, but Jones clearly had the better voice, not nasal-y or raspy like James. So much better than James, whose career faded in the 70s due to her heroin/alcohol addition, she came back fleetingly, but her voice was never the same, she had long absences from singing while in prison and rehab, and died at age 73. Etta Jones died at age 72 from cancer.
You, James Brown, mean Etta JONES never got the recognition she deserved, and that's true. Even now, people confuse them as you just did! James was well known and recorded MANY more songs than Jones. Jones is by far, the better singer, James, unfortunately, had to contend with drugs and alcohol and it did affect her singing, especially later on in her career, she was in and out of prison, rehab, sad, sad. Still, people know her better than Jones, partly due to the notoriety of her past problems!
I really like the way the bass player sustains his notes. We don't hear that very often on an upright bass. As for Etta . . . through all these many years it's as though the universe was keeping us apart. NOW! I'm a FAN!
This lady was born to sing and that is why she does not need any affectations, any extended runs with her voice, she is just pure and natural out front with a song. She did not get the props that were due her but the boys in the band knew. Just look at who made up her band over the years, especially the piano players....Etta brought the velvet and the piano players brought the thread and together they all made fabulous tapestries of sound. Just a purely sensational song stylist making every note her own.
Etta Jones's temperament was decidedly unlike that of a jazz diva, and she cherished the relationship she had with her longtime saxophonist, Houston Person. She toured constantly with Person for three decades, playing primarily for black audiences, and kept up her concert schedule until two weeks before her death in 2001. Sadly underrated throughout her 57-year career, most of the media coverage Jones received in her lifetime took place after her death.
I can't believe she sang up to 2 weeks before her death, but then, maybe I can -- she had a kind of determination that was unusual. Very nice lady, beautiful person. We understand she never treated her combo like "help" (she worked with Person about 30 years). I don't know what kind of cancer she had, but to be able to work that long just shows how amazing she was. RIP, dear Mrs. Jones! That reminds me of a song I like, sung by Billy Paul, "Me and Mrs. Jones" -- I love that song.
I can't believe there is actually a clip of her singing live finally up on TH-cam. Thanks soooo much for this! I love her phrasing and style...a couple of my favorite songs are her versions of "Love is the Thing" and "Something to Remember You By"...I only wish she had recorded more. Thanks again!
Every part of this is a pleasure; Etta Jones, of course, Stan Hope's solo on the bridge and the fills Houston Person adds during the closing chorus. All of them are great; every one of them at the top of their talent. Maybe add some extra applause for Stan Hope's solo, yes!
I just wish I could have been in that audience that day! what glorious talents that combo has, all of them, (the great Stan Hope on the piano) but the fabulous Etta Jones, of course, thrills me with this song! I return to this site often, to get my "fix" from Etta Jones! This site is the only one I've found that shows her in person, thank you for posting this lovely performance! I saw another one that looked like the same live venue, maybe the same night, but there aren't many out there.
You are so right, they worked together 30+ years, no wonder they got it perfect every time! I think Etta and her group do the best, most soulful rendition of "Crazy, He Calls Me" ever recorded!
thanks for posting that remarkable women .... Etta Jones.....have a good trip home dearest....we never will forget YOU....God Bless You and keep you....Good Night.....
Everything Etta Jones sang was so memorable, what a talented lady she was, I NEVER tire of listening to her perform, I just wish I had discovered her a lot sooner! So thankful she made some recordings so we could enjoy her forevermore. Etta Jones preferred to work in small groups, and she had some great artists work with her, listen to that piano at 2:45, that's Stan Hope I think, and she also worked about 30 years with sax player Houston Person, that trio and their combo was some of the best music ever Superb talents!
I remember the last time I saw her. I’d deliberately followed the rope line, like a groupie, after her stellar outdoor, summertime San Mateo, CA performance as she moved back stage. I knew it would be the last time I saw her. After many memories seeing her, and Houston, South of Market in the last small jazz clubs in the mid-80s in San Francisco. She’s pure love. And I love her.
When i watch this video ,i can't help but think of the great musicians, my mother had with her ,all that greatness on stage the pianist and Huston, just knock my sock off . wow they rapped the music around her. ,God Bless all of them and there family's . I am the one few new about.
The bass player is playing some great notes. Reminds me of when i worked with Paul West. he would play some great note ans say is Ray Brown in the house. This bass player brings that back.
I only discovered Etta Jones in the last decade or so. She's a real treasure! I'm glad i got to see her perform in this video, since I've enjoyed her for quite a while but never got to see her in person! I suppose that's Stan Hope on the piano, another great artist! Thank you for posting this! I know she worked with Houston Person (sax) for about 30 years, worked with Hope a long time also.
happy birthday Etta! 25/11/1928- October 16, 2001 la cantante Etta Jones, comenzó haciéndolo en orquestas y luego de un período de retiro volvió para asociarse a Houston Person y producir lo mejor de su carrera
Etta Jones could sound like the legendary Billie Holiday or Dinah Washington when she wanted to, but her voice was distinctive and she could make any song her own. She was also compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Ella Johnson, but Jones was unique among them. Though she never achieved the fame that Holiday or Fitzgerald did, Jones was a great performer, earning three Grammy nominations in her lifetime, for Don't go to Strangers (1960), Save Your Love for Me (1981), and My Buddy (1999).
She would (and should) have received more attention, BUT, she was the same era as Etta James and people got them confused, although I can't see how, Jones was so much better.
Stan was the best pianist Houston ever had, went to all their shows, the way he could incorporate other songs into the song was unique went on 10 cruises with this group, altho different drummer...Went to Etta's wake and funeral
I am new to this site, but not jazz. I have two CD's by your dad which he autographed for me. The first was Stepping into Beauty. I sat next to him and we chatted as he set up aboard the SS/Norway with Etta & Houston in October of 1996. I next saw the group at the New Jersey JAZZfest in 1998 and again in 2000.The second CD was Pastels which I purchased at the 2000 Festival. Also have Stan on piano on an Etta CD and on two Houston CDs. Our friends who went on the cruise new Etta and they took a photo of my wife & I with Etta which I keep on top of my computer
Jazz singers, the older they go, the better they get... this clip, along with those of ella and sarah, proves this theory... I would like to see how Billie and Dinah sing when they age; but the sad fact is that they two died too young...
@Dsandles that is Etta Jones not Etta James Not only does she sing this song but a song called "Something to Remember you By" Etta Jones is now deceased but Etta James is still living
Etta Jones' recorded career extended from 1944 to October 2001 (when her Billie Holiday tribute album was released). The public was he loser for not knowing her better (or confusing her with Etta James). This is fairly late Etta--and the heaviest I've seen her. But there's evidence of her interpretive greatness (look for her early '60s dates on Prestige, esp. her duets with Gene Ammons (here it's Houston Person). "If You Are But a Dream" is indescribably beautiful.
Etta Jones (not James) was closer to Billie Holiday than anyone--except that she remained to the end a stronger singer, never showing the fraile, broken spirit that came through on Billie's last recordings (esp. "Lady In Satin"). Etta's signature recording was her unequaled "Don't Go to Strangers." "Crazy He Calls Me" was as much Dinah Washington's tune. This is from her last period, with Houston Person. My favorite is her recording of "If You Are But a Dream" with Gene Ammons ("Jug").
You are so right, "caponsacchi" -- I love those songs too but my very favorite song is "Don't Misunderstand" where Houston Person has a long intro and Etta sings the lyrics better than the dozens who have recorded this song, some nice like Nancy Wilson and O.C. Smith, but others are horrible attempts on this beautiful song. Etta and her group just can't be beat on this, a favorite song of mine.
IMO, Etta Jones had a far better tone to her voice than Etta James, whose voice was ruined early on with drugs and alcohol, yet she kept on singing. I think one of the best pieces of music is Etta Jones with Houston Person in "Don't Misunderstand." Just inimitable! She worked with Houston Person for over 30 years, and it showed! What a team. I love how she sings the line "The difficult, I'm gonna do right now, oh but the impossible, that's gonna take a little while." So cool.
Billie Holiday didn't have a lot of competition in her day, and she never turned down an engagement, but her voice showed the ravage of cigarettes, drugs and alcohol, which just did her in. While she was great early on, she didn't stay that way, but her audience still liked her because they remembered what she was! Sad. But she was an influence on a lot of singers, she certainly had that!
You are right about that, there's really no comparison, except the similarity in names, which was negative for Jones, because people got her confused with James and thus she didn't get the recognition she so well deserved.
Etta James was great, too--but far more pop. Etta Jones started singing jazz in 1944 (even then sounding better than Billie when I compare their recordings of Duke's "Solitude"). All of her Prestige dates are absolute knock-outs. Some of her work after 1980 has over-doctored effects (amplified bass, reverb, etc.) and Etta's use of that "yodel"-cry. But she was still great and to the very end, "channeling" Billie on s recording released on the day of Etta's death, Oct. 2001.
The great Stan hope on piano my dad . He passed away but I come here to see his amazing natural talent . I never knew how amazing he played . He was just my dad . So magical Etta was the same the whole band . Real music and musicians and artist . They never die because the music lives for ever .
Wow, that's great, Assia. I was wondering who was on the piano. Your father's solo from 2:36-3:43 was amazing. So moving. The perfect interlude. Thanks for sharing!
Assia, Thanks for including us in your memory. Great music & great musicians.
Thanks for sharing this with us. Your father was awesome
Etta Jones rates right there with the best that have ever sang a note of jazz. Billie , Sarah, Ella, Betty, she stands along side those women as the best that have ever done it.
Miss Jones, a true treasure.
She is personally my vocal queen.Yahhh!
Yes!!!!!!!
I'm so excited to having heard her for the first time last week. Somehow I missed the boat on this singer. I'm absolutely in love with her singing. I've got a lot of catching up to do.
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@Gibson Abel Definitely, been using Instaflixxer for since december myself :D
Etta Jones, possibly the most underated Jazz singer of the 20th century
Facts.
That was easily one of the most beautiful renditions of Crazy He Calls Me I have ever heard. God bless Etta Jones.
Etta James is truly the most under rated singer in all music history. And this group backing her on this date is extraordinary! And permit me to add a lesson to musicians (mostly horn players): While backing a singer never play on top of their vocals. Houston Person may be the best at this I ever heard. Remember what official singers advise: "I don't sing while your playing so please don't play while I'm singing." And that's the triple truth....RUTH!
I have heard Etta these last few years on a Pandora channel. She stands out for me for a pure, unique and attractive voice. She doesn't overcook it and just let's the beautiful quality of her voice do the work.
One of the greatest Jazz Singers of the World!
I miss her....her warm voice, she is really feeling Jazz, and she's really knowing what it means singing Jazz! Thank you for your Gift Etta!
One of the last of the greatest female jazz singers. Etta Jones (corrected) never got the recognition she deserves.
etta jONes. And then I suppose etta jAMes did not either. They both gave us some great music.
+TheophilusBoone
I stand corrected. I do know the difference. it was a mistake. Actually, I like Etta Jones more.
James, I didn't know Etta James was gone. I too like Etta Jones' thing better, but as a blues shouter, Etta James was good as they come. Rather famous name you have there, James. I can never get tired of hearing James Brown. They say Miles listened to him a lot. Kinda beyond me why. But he liked Hendrix and Sly too.
Oh my goodness, that happened WAY too often, Etta Jones and Etta James were in the same era and people got them confused due to the similarity of their names, so Jones did NOT get the recognition she deserved. James sang more, recorded more, but Jones clearly had the better voice, not nasal-y or raspy like James. So much better than James, whose career faded in the 70s due to her heroin/alcohol addition, she came back fleetingly, but her voice was never the same, she had long absences from singing while in prison and rehab, and died at age 73. Etta Jones died at age 72 from cancer.
You, James Brown, mean Etta JONES never got the recognition she deserved, and that's true. Even now, people confuse them as you just did! James was well known and recorded MANY more songs than Jones. Jones is by far, the better singer, James, unfortunately, had to contend with drugs and alcohol and it did affect her singing, especially later on in her career, she was in and out of prison, rehab, sad, sad. Still, people know her better than Jones, partly due to the notoriety of her past problems!
I really like the way the bass player sustains his notes. We don't hear that very often on an upright bass.
As for Etta . . . through all these many years it's as though the universe was keeping us apart. NOW! I'm a FAN!
❤️❤️❤️❤️ one of my all time favorites.
Shame that others think of Etta James. LOVE ETTA JONES.❤
Best rendition ever! What a soulful singer. And who’s that awesome piano player?! Wow
I miss her so much it brings me to tears...gorgeous lady in every way
Plain and Simple...one of the greatest 'Jazz Vocalist Ever' AMEN~~~
This lady was born to sing and that is why she does not need any affectations, any extended runs with her voice, she is just pure and natural out front with a song. She did not get the props that were due her but the boys in the band knew. Just look at who made up her band over the years, especially the piano players....Etta brought the velvet and the piano players brought the thread and together they all made fabulous tapestries of sound. Just a purely sensational song stylist making every note her own.
There will never be another Etta. Thank you for posting
Etta Jones's temperament was decidedly unlike that of a jazz diva, and she cherished the relationship she had with her longtime saxophonist, Houston Person. She toured constantly with Person for three decades, playing primarily for black audiences, and kept up her concert schedule until two weeks before her death in 2001. Sadly underrated throughout her 57-year career, most of the media coverage Jones received in her lifetime took place after her death.
So true, I wish she could have know how we love her now!
I can't believe she sang up to 2 weeks before her death, but then, maybe I can -- she had a kind of determination that was unusual. Very nice lady, beautiful person. We understand she never treated her combo like "help" (she worked with Person about 30 years). I don't know what kind of cancer she had, but to be able to work that long just shows how amazing she was. RIP, dear Mrs. Jones! That reminds me of a song I like, sung by Billy Paul, "Me and Mrs. Jones" -- I love that song.
This song combined with Etta Jones' voice moves me to tears every time I hear it.
One of the best i no her very well morris Wall
I can't believe there is actually a clip of her singing live finally up on TH-cam. Thanks soooo much for this! I love her phrasing and style...a couple of my favorite songs are her versions of "Love is the Thing" and "Something to Remember You By"...I only wish she had recorded more. Thanks again!
Every part of this is a pleasure; Etta Jones, of course, Stan Hope's solo on the bridge and the fills Houston Person adds during the closing chorus. All of them are great; every one of them at the top of their talent. Maybe add some extra applause for Stan Hope's solo, yes!
I just wish I could have been in that audience that day! what glorious talents that combo has, all of them, (the great Stan Hope on the piano) but the fabulous Etta Jones, of course, thrills me with this song! I return to this site often, to get my "fix" from Etta Jones! This site is the only one I've found that shows her in person, thank you for posting this lovely performance! I saw another one that looked like the same live venue, maybe the same night, but there aren't many out there.
Etta Jones and Houston Person.....never a better duo!
You are so right, they worked together 30+ years, no wonder they got it perfect every time! I think Etta and her group do the best, most soulful rendition of "Crazy, He Calls Me" ever recorded!
So true -- they worked together 30+ years, so each knew EXACTLY what the other one was about to do -- perfection!
So true, and Stan Hope on the piano is great also. Those 3 together, along with the others in her group make listening such a pleasure!
This is the blues . Its one of the best singers. Buth i like both Etta,s thank you
so much !
wow look at grandma etta, thats my mom's best friends grandma. RIP grandma etta.
😲👏🎶🎵🎤😃 she's got IT no doubt!! Beautifully done...tone and phrasing magnificent!!!! Glad this showed up!!!!
thanks for posting that remarkable women .... Etta Jones.....have a good trip home dearest....we never will forget YOU....God Bless You and keep you....Good Night.....
She was magnificent.
Nine yrs, since a made my comment? Still, love Etta and miss her.
Just gorgeous, like the lovely and talented Etta Jones, a new favorite of mine, since discovering her a few years ago!
My mother worked with some of the greatest musicians..
Etta Jones is a jazz giant. Her voice will live forever.
god... i love her voice...the band plays perfectly fitting aswell
Everything Etta Jones sang was so memorable, what a talented lady she was, I NEVER tire of listening to her perform, I just wish I had discovered her a lot sooner! So thankful she made some recordings so we could enjoy her forevermore.
Etta Jones preferred to work in small groups, and she had some great artists work with her, listen to that piano at 2:45, that's Stan Hope I think, and she also worked about 30 years with sax player Houston Person, that trio and their combo was some of the best music ever Superb talents!
Amazing.....If we had talent like this nowadays there would be more love, less hate!
Wow! How come I didn’t know about Etta Jones until TODAY?
I remember the last time I saw her. I’d deliberately followed the rope line, like a groupie, after her stellar outdoor, summertime San Mateo, CA performance as she moved back stage. I knew it would be the last time I saw her. After many memories seeing her, and Houston, South of Market in the last small jazz clubs in the mid-80s in San Francisco. She’s pure love. And I love her.
Bravissima!!!!!
great timing and phrasing,just a natural.
When i watch this video ,i can't help but think of the great musicians, my mother had with her ,all that greatness on stage the pianist and Huston, just knock my sock off . wow they rapped the music around her. ,God Bless all of them and there family's . I am the one few new about.
Truly one of the best, she is head & shoulders w/ Billie, Ella, Dinah, Sarah, Carmen, & a few more. R.I.P. Etta...
Love her voice!
Just beautiful. Etta was amazing!
The bass player is playing some great notes. Reminds me of when i worked with Paul West. he would play some great note ans say is Ray Brown in the house. This bass player brings that back.
perfect performance lucky those who were there
what a soul!
One of the BEST ❤
I miss you Etta!!
What a voice,so beautiful! Love Etta!
What a deadly gorgeous singer!
I only discovered Etta Jones in the last decade or so. She's a real treasure! I'm glad i got to see her perform in this video, since I've enjoyed her for quite a while but never got to see her in person! I suppose that's Stan Hope on the piano, another great artist! Thank you for posting this! I know she worked with Houston Person (sax) for about 30 years, worked with Hope a long time also.
Absolute MAGIC !!! and The piano solo just blows me away.......
Fantástica !
De um outro jeito, de uma outra maneira !
Lembra a Billie !
Salve Etta !!!
Ivan Bocalon
My god! I wish I had seen her.
An amazing and wonderful singer, I have goose bumps xx RIP Etta xx
Owwwww - chills up and down the spine. SLICK and so sweet.
Absolutely beautiful
Merci Madame! Vous allez nous manquer.
Etta, you're everything, girl.
Indimenticabile Grazie Etta.. Great !!
happy birthday Etta!
25/11/1928- October 16, 2001 la cantante Etta Jones, comenzó haciéndolo en orquestas y luego de un período de retiro volvió para asociarse a Houston Person y producir lo mejor de su carrera
smooth! smooth! smooth ! THANK YOU for this !
Beautiful always and forever!!!
Etta Jones could sound like the legendary Billie Holiday or Dinah Washington when she wanted to, but her voice was distinctive and she could make any song her own. She was also compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Ella Johnson, but Jones was unique among them. Though she never achieved the fame that Holiday or Fitzgerald did, Jones was a great performer, earning three Grammy nominations in her lifetime, for Don't go to Strangers (1960), Save Your Love for Me (1981), and My Buddy (1999).
She would (and should) have received more attention, BUT, she was the same era as Etta James and people got them confused, although I can't see how, Jones was so much better.
She really made every Song her own and her and her flow makes me possesed ❤
great timing and phrasing,just a natural.graham'
pure beauty
Fantastic. Great build up in the piano solo too
Beautiful voice...
i love the song ! i love the performance !
Beautiful
Dinah Washington most able to focus this
stan hope is my dad playing the piano he is amazing. thanks for posting this video
Stan was the best pianist Houston ever had, went to all their shows, the way he could incorporate other songs into the song was unique went on 10 cruises with this group, altho different drummer...Went to Etta's wake and funeral
I am new to this site, but not jazz.
I have two CD's by your dad which he autographed for me. The first was Stepping into Beauty. I sat next to him and we chatted as he set up aboard the SS/Norway with Etta & Houston in October of 1996. I next saw the group at the New Jersey JAZZfest in 1998 and again in 2000.The second CD was Pastels which I purchased at the 2000 Festival. Also have Stan on piano on an Etta CD and on two Houston CDs. Our friends who went on the cruise new Etta and they took a photo of my wife & I with Etta which I keep on top of my computer
juste ja'adore
Personally my favorite.
wow
Jazz singers, the older they go, the better they get... this clip, along with those of ella and sarah, proves this theory...
I would like to see how Billie and Dinah sing when they age; but the sad fact is that they two died too young...
Perfect
@Dsandles that is Etta Jones not Etta James
Not only does she sing this song but a song called "Something to Remember you By" Etta Jones is now deceased but Etta James is still living
so luxuriously gorgeous I want to JUMP ... crazy man
Etta Jones' recorded career extended from 1944 to October 2001 (when her Billie Holiday tribute album was released). The public was he loser for not knowing her better (or confusing her with Etta James). This is fairly late Etta--and the heaviest I've seen her. But there's evidence of her interpretive greatness (look for her early '60s dates on Prestige, esp. her duets with Gene Ammons (here it's Houston Person). "If You Are But a Dream" is indescribably beautiful.
Que musica
Thanks so much for posting!! Any more?
@vintagevoices - second that!
Great singer !!! (just no other way to put it)
I like this one and Billie's. BUT Aretha's version is my favorite. Have you heard it?
@SNAKEEYESSAM That is Etta James, not Etta Jones. Two different people and she wasn't alive when that drama was going on.
Very Fine!
But please Tell me when it was taped and where?
bass sounds great! what led to you playing bass? what's it like rehearsing for a show?
ummm i kno i dont know anything about this woman but i would just like to say: this song is on fallout 3 yay its a good song :)
Am I reading this right...33 albums???
i know this song through Fallout 3.. It' still good song!
Etta Jones (not James) was closer to Billie Holiday than anyone--except that she remained to the end a stronger singer, never showing the fraile, broken spirit that came through on Billie's last recordings (esp. "Lady In Satin"). Etta's signature recording was her unequaled "Don't Go to Strangers." "Crazy He Calls Me" was as much Dinah Washington's tune. This is from her last period, with Houston Person. My favorite is her recording of "If You Are But a Dream" with Gene Ammons ("Jug").
You are so right, "caponsacchi" -- I love those songs too but my very favorite song is "Don't Misunderstand" where Houston Person has a long intro and Etta sings the lyrics better than the dozens who have recorded this song, some nice like Nancy Wilson and O.C. Smith, but others are horrible attempts on this beautiful song. Etta and her group just can't be beat on this, a favorite song of mine.
IMO, Etta Jones had a far better tone to her voice than Etta James, whose voice was ruined early on with drugs and alcohol, yet she kept on singing. I think one of the best pieces of music is Etta Jones with Houston Person in "Don't Misunderstand." Just inimitable! She worked with Houston Person for over 30 years, and it showed! What a team. I love how she sings the line "The difficult, I'm gonna do right now, oh but the impossible, that's gonna take a little while." So cool.
Billie Holiday didn't have a lot of competition in her day, and she never turned down an engagement, but her voice showed the ravage of cigarettes, drugs and alcohol, which just did her in. While she was great early on, she didn't stay that way, but her audience still liked her because they remembered what she was! Sad. But she was an influence on a lot of singers, she certainly had that!
wow...
If you are the bass player, you sound great. Look at my other comment.
Interesting.. the tunes are quite different from the Billie's original version.
But this version is good in a different way..
I'm just not in live with Jazz, but if I were, it'd be Etta Jones, not James, that would be on my turntable.
You are right about that, there's really no comparison, except the similarity in names, which was negative for Jones, because people got her confused with James and thus she didn't get the recognition she so well deserved.
PBR did a nice tribute to Etta Jones when she passed a few years back.
Is it taped? I'd like to see that. She was a great talent, AND a beautiful person, we understand.
I don't know. I heard it on the radio one day, Public Broadcasting. I imagine it's out there, somewhere.
I said "a few years back". Actually, it was around the time of her death in 2001. My, how time flies~!
Etta James was great, too--but far more pop. Etta Jones started singing jazz in 1944 (even then sounding better than Billie when I compare their recordings of Duke's "Solitude"). All of her Prestige dates are absolute knock-outs. Some of her work after 1980 has over-doctored effects (amplified bass, reverb, etc.) and Etta's use of that "yodel"-cry. But she was still great and to the very end, "channeling" Billie on s recording released on the day of Etta's death, Oct. 2001.
Britney Spears???? HAHAHAHAHAHA You gotta be joking!!
I like Billie Holiday's version better. Can't find it here though :(
I clicked because I thought it said Etta James. Great voice, though.
Absolutely awful
@SNAKEEYESSAM That is Etta James, not Etta Jones. Two different people and she wasn't alive when that drama was going on.