This week I asked my Twitter friends 1) Who their favorite jazz vocalists are and 2) What soul-crushingly beautiful music they'd recommend. Here's what they, aka you, said:
Favorite Jazz Vocalists
• Lady Day • Nat King Cole • Frank Sinatra • Cab Calloway • Ella Fitzgerald • Louis Armstrong • Diana Krall • Mel Torme • Bill Weathers • Nina Simone • Billie Holiday • Sarah Vaughan • Bobbi Humphrey • Diana Krall • Betty Carter • Little Jimmy Scott • Madeleine Peyroux • Patricia Barber •
Soul-Crushingly Beautiful Music
• Sigur Ros • "Go Now" by the Moody Blues • "I Get Along Without You Very Well" by Carly Simon • Neko Case • Emmylou Harris • Riceboy Sleeps • "Possibly Maybe" by Björk • Other Lives • Ray LaMontagne • Neil Young • Annuals • Jeff Buckley • "Oriental Melody" and "Cool New Way" by Joe Satriani • Kings of Convenience • The Sundays • Mazzy Star • The Cure (Disintigration-era) • Leonard Cohen • Sufjan Stevens •
The Sublime Goodness Mixtape 2 • Patty Griffin •
My ears will be warm and full for weeks. Thanks to
@jimmymarks,
@allspeeds,
@solis510,
@ali_shafai,
@vanessahenry,
@morrischris,
@jhoop98,
@andrewshepherd,
@lisarandolph,
@bradywalen,
@dericjones,
@mmpartee,
@nunispramp for that.
Update 7/1: I've added four jazz vocalists and a spelling change from
@astigmatic, who let me know that, "It's Krall, the singer, not Krull, the awesomely bad fantasy thriller from 1983." Thanks, Aaron.
PS: Add to the list by posting your favorites in the comments.