#female jazz singer

[planetofneworleans]

Ella Hohnen-Ford

Source: https://hohnenford.bandcamp.com

#hohnen ford #ella hohnen ford #hohnen-ford #female jazz singer

[eyesfullofmoon]

Amy Winehouse in Downtown Manhattan, New York City, New York. 2003.

Photographed by Charles Moriarty.

#amy winehouse #2000s #music #* #charles moriarty #new york city #manhattan #female musicians #women in music #blue eyed soul #00s #jazz singer #early 00s #00s aesthetic #early 2000s #00s nostalgia #female singer #soul music #jazz music #women musicians #2000s nostalgia #2000s aesthetic #2000s fashion #y2k

[venice-witch60s]

#amy winehouse #jazz #soul #r&b #good music #back to black #female icons #fashion icon #girlblogging #girlblogger #girlblog ♡ #big hair #singer #🖤 #mine #pinterest #her time was too short #she deserved more #music icons #talented women #★ #just a girl #just a girl in the world #coquette #lana del rey #coquette aesthetic #coquette dollete #just girly things #lana del rey aesthetic #vintage

[burlveneer-music]

Ray Ragnhild Adams - Allande - Frederiksberg Records reissue of 1997 tape-only release from Sweden, an adventurous one-woman bedroom pop album that would have been at home on Crammed Discs

Ray Ragnhild Adams wrote and recorded Allande, her only solo album, in 1997. It was conceived while she was living and working in Torna Hällestad, a small town in southern Sweden. It was later recorded in a small studio in Malmö and privately released in a tiny run of cassette tapes. On the eleven tracks that make up Allande, Ray combines strong vocals, polyrhythmics, sensitive chord progressions and non-Western scales and rhythms to deliver a personal and relevant musical experience. Among the instruments featured are a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a homemade polymer transverse flute and a full- size Paraguayan harp. As she recalls, her earliest musical influences include African rhythm and song and early R&B, music that her mother enjoyed, and Ray absorbed it all. She was drawn to music and found solace in it. It became a platform for her own expression, as she would improvise on piano and rhythm instruments at an early age. Text & musik Ray Ragnhild Adams med röst / synt / harpa / flöjt och rytm

#Ray Ragnhild Adams #female vocal #singer songwriter #sweden #90s #1997 #Frederiksberg Records #dream pop #world music #fourth world #electronic #jazz #soul #Bandcamp

[lilaceas]

raquel savinon

#mc savinon #savis #female rappers #soul #soul jazz #singer #musician #femme #funk carioca #funky #funky times #brazilian fc #brazilian funk #oldie #oldie but goodie #early 2000s #2000s core #2000s internet #cyberspace

[mywifeleftme]

316: Toto Bissainthe // Chante Haïti

Chante Haïti Toto Bissainthe 1977, Arion

“These songs are mostly slave songs taken from the Vodou cult. They speak of the quotidian, of the suffering of exile, and the desire of Africa, not as a geographical place but as a mythical land of freedom. They express their resistance and their refusal: resistance to the colonizer, refusal of his politics, of his religion, of his culture, of his language.”

So begins Toto Bissainthe’s statement on the rear of Chante Haïti, her 1977 collaboration with a small combo of Antillean folk and French jazz musicians: vocalists Marie-Claude Benoît and Mariann Mathéus; percussionists Akonio Dolo and Mino Cinélu (Miles Davis, Weather Report, Gong); Patrice Cinélu on acoustic guitar; and Beb Guérin on the double bass. The songs indeed fuse the Vodou ritual of her native Haiti with the European avant garde sounds of her adopted milieu of Paris, where she had moved to pursue acting and found herself a de facto exile due to the political situation back home. Bissainthe had become a prominent figure in the French theatre, performing in new plays by Beckett and Genet and co-founding Les Griots, France’s first Black theatre company; by the late ‘70s, she was an acclaimed recording artist to boot. Her accomplishments made her a prominent figure in the Haitian diaspora and her activist streak is apparent throughout Chante Haïti, explicitly linking the grief and yearning for liberation in these traditional ceremonials with the country’s contemporary struggles.

Like many songs on the album, the Creole words of opener “Soley danmbalab” mourn the people's estrangement from Mother Africa, a crossing which can neither be reversed or repeated. It begins like a field recording, Bissainthe’s soulful, Miriam Makeba-esque voice set to a chorus of rattles and bells and gurgling masculine whispers. As the song develops, her melody wends like a stream through the dense jungle of percussion, dissonant bass, and counterpoint chanting. Eventually, Mino Cinélu’s arrangement becomes more free, the male chorus imploring the Oungan (a male Vodou priest) to intercede with the creator on the people’s behalf as the tune breaks down into an increasingly abstract bass and drum interplay, while the three female singers exchange birdlike vocal improvisations.

“Ibo Ogoun (Variations)” is even wilder, evoking a trance ritual, the spirits speaking in many tongues through the celebrants as they seek to summon Ogun, God of Iron and War, to lead the battle of liberation. One of the male percussionists times his tanbou beat so that it hits just as he sings certain notes, creating the illusion that he voice has suddenly lurched down an octave for a moment, almost like a DJ freaking a vocal sample. Bissainthe, Mathéus, and Benoît match the intense drumming with some crazy syncopations, sometimes talking, sometimes hissing and whispering, sometimes wailing and ululating.

Most of the album takes on a more meditative tact, anchored by Guérin’s plangent double bass. On the smoky “Papadanbalab,” an entreaty to the serpent creator Damballa to bear witness to the penury of his people, Bissainthe sways over a slinky jazz bass line, Patrice Cinélu adding mellow acoustic fusion licks. The song seems like a brief stopover in a Parisian club. But even the less overtly intense tracks pack plenty of musical interest. “Lamize pa dous” has this hypnotic rhythm that sounds exactly like a micro house beat—in fact, the first thing it made me think of was Ricardo Villalobos’ Alcachofa, or Animal Collective at their campfire ravingest. The song is about the moment of surrender to death, the winnowing of time represented by water encroaching on all sides, the realization too late that “we spend our lives trying to fill the sea with stones.”

Listening to a record like this, especially in light of Bissainthe’s note on the back excoriating the colonialist ethnographer who reduces Haitian folklore to “excitement and violence,” requires at least a smidgen of awareness from the white listener that Chante Haïti is not intended for them. The traditions it engages with are of deep spiritual significance to many Haitians, both in the ‘70s and today. But for those inside and outside the culture who are willing to approach it with respect, Chante Haïti is a fascinating fusion of Antillean and European musics, and a peek into a profound and secret history.

316/365

#toto bissainthe #haiti #haitian music #vodou #haitian vodou #vodou music #diaspora #spiritual jazz #Kréyol djaz #creole #'70s music #female singer #female musicians #protest music #music review #vinyl record

[hildegardladyofbones]

Weird jazz women. Feel free to add more

Maria Faust- Estonian, makes music about domestic violence, very feminist. Notable for using a lot of saxophones and organs in her music. My mom recommended her to me because there's a movie about her.

Laufey- Icelandic, very well known through tik tok I think? Nevertheless her music is very ethereal. Main topic seems to be love. Found her through a 00q discord server of all things.

Enji- Mongolian, do not know the topic of her songs, but I love her vibes. Found her through a Spotify generated playlist.

#jazz #music #female singers #music recommendations

[musicollage]

Natalia Lafourcade — De Todas las Flores. 2022 : Sony.

! acquire the album ★ attach a coffee !

#rock music #folk rock #latin jazz #natalia lafourcade #2022 #sony #marc ribot #female performer #singer songwriter #pop rock #2020s #2020s rock

[chatandchai]

♧♦︎House of Cards♦︎♧

AlastorXfem!oc

A Jazz singer?

A Radio Host?

Identities in New Orleans in the 1920s were never a topic of discussion, until of course, Alastor and Kaya decided to cross paths.

AO3 link

// Prologue //Chapter 1 // Chapter 2 // Chapter 3 // Chapter 4 // Chapter 5 // Chapter 6 // Chapter 7 // Chapter 8 // Chapter 9 //.……..coming soon

#hazbin hotel #hazbin vox #alastor human #alastor #alastor x oc #female original character #radio host alastor #jazz singer oc #hazbin alastor #rivals to lovers #double life #serial killers in love #fake dating #alastor wears specs #circa 1920 #1920s jazz

[babblybird]

You know I’m no good ❤️

#amy winehouse #music #singer #artist #soul music #old soul #jazz music #jazz lovers #hiphop #fusion #pop music #female vocals #female artists #female #amazing vocals #singingvideo #cover #cover song

[mr-divabetic]

The versatile and talented Paulette McWilliams is back with her latest Christmas wonder, musically cheerful ‘Pink Champagne’ that impresses fans: https://open.spotify.com/track/2As42s4KQdg6Yw8yJL5Qib?si=07204e0f94954adc

#christmas #christmas music #christmas song #Holidays #holiday music #vocalist #jazz #neo soul #ballad #story song #Female singers #Singer #soul life #uk soul

[pinkguacamole]

This month passed the one year anniversary of our band. I like to appreciate the poetry of life so here is a video from a recent performance at my favorite bar in DC, Bossa. This particular video feels full circle because the lyrics were inspired by a person I took to Bossa a few times, including our first night. It was one of those first dates where you start at a fancy Indian restaurant, sing karaoke in a karaoke room just the two of you for an hour, go dancing to samba (at Bossa) and then finish it off with live jazz at 2 am. The following months were just as exciting. He’s gone now.

But I have my music and my band. In a year we have written 10+ songs (many of which have helped me process my experiences with men 😂) and are currently recording two with a producer. I get to live my alter ego of this emoji 💃🏻 on stage and I love it.

#local band #singer #art #washingtondc #band #jazz rock #bossa nova #funk #female singer #Youtube

[dixiefunk]

Debórah Bond - "Compass: I"

#cd #my photo #diary #deborah bond #female singer #r and b #neo soul #acid jazz

[sistersinmusic]

Emma Rae is a pop singer-songwriter. Her upbringing in a house with a jazz trombonist father and vocalist/guitarist mother has heavily influenced her music. Emma’s original music flows freely between genres. While at Berklee College of Music, she studied under renowned singer-songwriter, Paula Cole. Emma has won numerous awards throughout her career, including the Excellence in Songwriting Scholarship at Berklee. An accomplished pianist and lyricist, Emma’s music captures the realities of love and loss, triumph and angst.

#artist #entertainment #female #indie #jazz #music #singer #songwriter #women

[burlveneer-music]

Maggie Nicols "Are You Ready / Sans Papiers" - piano-accompanied songs originally streamed for Cafe OTO

First physical solo release from legendary vocal improvisor, dancer, and performer Maggie Nicols, and the follow up to her brilliant 'Creative Contradiction’ (Takuroku 2020).

While she might be best known as an improviser, most notably in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Feminist Improvising Group and more recently with the likes of 'Les Diaboliques', Maggie Nicols’ talents stretch into song, dance, poetry, performance and composition. Whilst Cafe OTO was shut over lockdown we invited Maggie Nicols to follow up her brilliant Creative Contradiction’ (Takuroku 2020) with some time spent singing alone at the piano. The release comprises an LP of songs and a 2CD edition including a companion disk of free improvised meditations entitled, ‘Whatever Arises.’ The LP and 2CD contain different material.

#Maggie Nicols #female vocal #cafe oto #2022 #jazz #singer-songwriter

[skaphander]

Betty Carter - I Remember You

#betty carter #music #jazz #singer #female singer #Youtube