Abbey (Lincoln) and Annie (Ross): singers, composers, and sometimes actors: Saturday Music Club on Monday

Born within a fortnight of each other in 1930, Ross as Annabelle Allan Short on 25 July, Lincoln as Anna Marie Wooldridge on 6 August (34 years to the day before I was}, they both came softly but impressively into the jazz scene in the early 1950s, and did great solo work and were also important components of major bands/choruses of their era: Ross in Lambert, Hendricks and Ross and Lincoln in the Max Roach Quintet. They also had interesting side careers in drama, not solely playing musicians, but also that. Ross's first career was as a child actor; Lincoln also moved to California at not quite so young an age, and got a bit of a boost from recording for the film The Girl Can't Help It...

Annie Ross discography; drama and more
Abbey Lincoln discography; drama and more

Annie Ross: "The Way You Look Tonight"

Milt Jackson (vibes) Blossom Dearie (piano) Percy Heath (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums) Annie Ross (vocals) NYC, April 1, 1952

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "A Night in Tunisia"

Annie Ross (with Lambert and Hendricks): "Twisted" and L, H & R with Joe William: "Every Day I Have the Blues"  with Count Basie (piano), Freddie Green (guitar), Ed Jones (bass), and Sonny Payne (drums) (with a scrap of Judy Garland appended) 

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, with the Les McCann Trio: "Four"

Annie Ross: "Annie's Lament"

George Wallington (piano) Roger Ram Ramirez (organ) Percy Heath (bass) Art Blakey (drums) Annie Ross (vocals) NYC, October 9, 1952

Annie Ross: "Skylark"

Annie Ross: "Prisoner of Life" from Short Cuts

Nothing but a Man with Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln: "Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me"

Abbey Lincoln: "Lonely House"

Abbey Lincoln: "Left Alone"

Abbey Lincoln with the Max Roach Chorus and Orchestra: "Lonesome Lover"

Abbey Lincoln: "Blue Monk"

Abbey Lincoln:  "First Song"

Abbey Lincoln:  "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise"

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Annie Ross: "All the Things You Are"

Some singers, mostly the songs of others (some more covers): Saturday Music Club on Sunday

Miriam Makeba: "Come to Glory"


Fontella Bass: "Talking About Freedom"

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Jackie"


Monday Michiru: "Zanzibar"


Olivia Ong: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Melody Gardot: "Ain't No Sunshine"


Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings: "Your Long Journey"


Boa: "Duvet"


The Go! Team: "Catch Me on the Rebound"


The Go! Team: "Grip Like a Vice"

some jazz singers and Buffy Sainte-Marie: Saturday Music Club on Thursday

Chris Connor: "Lonely Woman" (courtesy Jim C.)


Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "A Taste of Honey"


Abbey Lincoln: "Lonely House"


Blossom Dearie: "Lucky to Be Me"


Freda Payne: "Feeling Good"


Aretha Franklin: "Trouble in Mind"


Lola Albright: "How High the Moon"


Carmen McRae: "Just a Little Lovin'"


Betty Carter and Ray Charles: "People Will Say We're in Love"


Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington: "Unconditional Love"


Buffy Sainte-Marie on To Tell the Truth (with Victoria Racimo as another panelist)

Saturday Music Club: influence detective edition: on free jazz singer Patty Waters, and those who cite her...

Patty Waters. latter 1960s

Patty Waters has had one of the more enigmatic careers among jazz vocalists, having been "discovered" singing in a supper club by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler and recommended to Ayler's primary label at the time, ESP-Disk Records. She recorded two albums for the indy label in 1965 and '66, then, after a bit of a European sojourn, retired from performance for decades. But the two LPs, and a rarities collection, helped her have some important influence on Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch and Diamanda Galás, by their own account (and through the first two, punk rock among other modes). Here, below, a slight query into some of those who might've influenced Waters, or at least got her to consider opening up her approach in the direction she took for her early recordings...to write "gave her permission" is too much, I suspect...Waters apparently hadn't heard the Lincoln performance till after recording her own.

Sheila Jordan with the George Russell Sextet: "You Are My Sunshine"


Nina Simone: "Feeling Good"


Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "Laura"


Abbey Lincoln with the Max Roach band: "Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace)" from Freedom Now Suite


Patty Waters: "It Never Entered My Mind"


Patty Waters: "Song of Clifford"

for her recording of "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair"

Joan La Barbara: "Twelvesong"


Patti Smith Group: "Ain't It Strange"

Saturday Music Club: some jazz vocalists

Urszula Dudziak: At the first Thelonious Monk Memorial Concert, at Constitution Hall, 1986: Improvisation on 'Round Midnight (I was present, and met and spoke with Dudziak, and David Amram, Gerry Mulligan and Wynton Marsalis, afterward at the reception.)
Urszula Dudziak & Walk Away: Rosemary's Baby Theme 
Urszula Dudziak: Ulice wielkich miast ("The Streets of Big Cities")

René Marie: Stronger Than You Think You Are

René Marie: This is (Not) a Protest Song

Jasmin Tabatabai and the David Klein Quartet: Another Sad Song (jazz interpretation)

Jasmin Tabatabai: Another Sad Song (folkie/Bandits soundtrack version)

Luciana Souza: Sonnet 49 (by Pablo Neruda)

Luciana Souza & Trio: Pra Que Discutir Com Madame 

Kate McGarry Trio: Chelsea Morning/Not So Far/Let's Face the Music and Dance

Kate McGarry: Just What I Needed

Monday Michiru Band (aka Michiru Mariano...because we Italo-Americans have to stick together...and Toshiko Akiyoshi's daughter): You Make Me

Monday Michiru: The Sands of Time

Dee Alexander and Evolution Ensemble: Truth

Dee Alexander with Steve Simon and the Jazz Islanders: Summertime