Like the title says. I've been trying to look for some jazz with a female vocalist and a great guitar player who takes solos. Do you have any recommendations?
Are there jazz bands (or maybe albums) which combine a great female singer with a great guitar player?
Fell in love with this over the weekend.
Imagine having joe pass as your accompanist or being able to play guitar with ella fitzgerald as your singer? Unbelievable…. Ella is my favorite jazz singer I think. I like her even more than Billie Holiday for the most part. I can’t say favorite. Because Johnny Hartman might be the king for me. Then again…. I’m just glad they all made the music and it was recorded!!
https://youtu.be/2olBE4C5_Gk?si=AAYg7npXTZ64tA0F
Decided to watch this again as a result of this post. You get goosebumps from her voice. And Joe Pass is like some kind of genius musical concierge. His backing playing is incredibly musical on its own and it is always commenting supporting and adding to her vocals.
Ella was unreal! Really something else. I don't think there's any other vocalist quite like her in the Jazz world. Great music with Joe Pass who's a beast guitar player! Thanks for this suggestion.
Getz/Gilberto.
Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Rosa Pasos is an amazing Brazilian vocalist/ guitar player and has some great albums w Rob Carter. Also Luis Bonfá and whoever the vocalist is on Manhã de Carnival.
Julie Is Her Name -- Barney's parts are classic!
Also “Julie is her Name Volume Two” with Howard Roberts and Red Mitchell on bass.
julies voice also classic
Holy shit! She's absolutely incredible!
How about Joni Mitchel + Pat Metheny? Can you beat that? Amelia.
Also from the 1980's:
* Cassandra Wilson (with Jean-Paul Bourelly) on Point Of View: I Am Waiting
* Tuck and Patty: Time After Time and also Take My Breath Away
Other than I Am Waiting, the other two songs are like mostly Folk with Amelia being Folk-Rock. They have some Jazz elements but that's not Jazz. Great, great guitar songs but they're not Jazz per se.
Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass
Sonny and Linda Sharrock
Jane Monheit and Jonathan Kreisberg, Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke, Julia Dollison and Ben Monder, Sidsel Endresen and Stian Westerhus if you're feeling experimental
I like Jane Monheit. Will look for this collaboration. Thanks. =)
Diana Krall has a really good guitar player (Anthony Wilson).
Right. I love Diana Krall's vocals! But her guitarist doesn't take solos! Any albums where he does?
No idea. Sorry.
Check out any album she did with Russell Malone on guitar.
The Dream a Little Dream solo started playing in my head when I opened this thread
Dominique Eade worked with Mick Goodrick a ton.
Back in my Boston days
Well there’s Tucker and Patty.
I said “Tucker”?? I must have really been distracted. Lol.
This. Tuck is killer. His grooves are mind blowing.
came here to suggest this (actually it's Tuck not Tucker)
Tuck is an amazing gifted guitar player
not specifically jazz though
if you are into bossa nova, local Montreal band Bet.e and Stef are fantastic ! (the album is Day by day) again, not specifically jazz......
Camila Meza on vocals and on guitar….well, Camila Meza.
Youtube. Look for Rita Payes with her mom on guitar playing with WDR big band. Crazy good but not typical jazz guitar necessarily. Amazing arrangements, good vocals and incredible musicianship.
Most Madeline Peyroux, possibly all.
With Marc Ribot
Hell yeah.
Dodo Greene “My Hour Of Need” with Grant Green on guitar. Fantastic album.
It's not guitar, but Esperanza Spalding is great. She sings and plays electric bass and upright bass.
Camila Meza! https://youtu.be/EEsdtJtgqrY?si=9xsU7mOk6-bmiVpv
Very good! That's some high level Jazz but it's very tasteful! Thanks.
Edit: I love how she writes her own songs too and doesn't just play standards!
Nina Simone had a truly awesome guitarist, Al Schackman and their interplay was definitely something special. Maybe everyone is forgetting him because she was such an extraordinary piano player.
The current lineup of Incognito with Charlie Allen is ridiculously good live. His playing is all over the new album too.
Lena Horn & Gabor Szabo made an album together. Super dope version of “Rocky Raccoon” on it.
Billie Holiday always had great guitar players in her bands
Barney Kessel on her Verve sessions is some of my all-time favorite guitar playing. He plays beautiful solos on All or Nothing At All and Ill Wind, among many others.
Recorded extremely well, too, one could add
Joao and Astrud Gilberto
Tuck and Patti are one of the best single guitar female singer jazz duos you will hear and have been playing together for over 30 yrs now. Patti’s vocals are really beautiful and unique and Tuck is a fantastic world known fingerstyle guitarist.
paul motian - windwills of your mind ... has Bill Frisell
Patricia Barber with Neal Alger is always fun!
Bonus: she's a great pianist too.
Youn Sun Nah + Ulf Wakenius
I don’t know if it fits the bill but Sarah Millman is a great singer and used to do some jazzy stuff
https://youtu.be/_lwp7ABksgo?si=Mmw3PGKkcrxkjh3J
Katie Martucci, Josh Dunn
Samara Joy, some of Anita O'Day's earlier albums (Anita Sings the Most, An Evening with Anita O'Day, Anita), Rita Payés and Elisabeth Roma
Maybe some lambert Hendricks and Ross? There are vocalese solos lol
hmmm sorry no guitar on LHR and I've heard it all
annie ross is indeed a very good jazz vocalist
I just picked up Rachel & Vilray, total impulse at the record store. Great stuff, album I got is I Love a Love Song
u/planetvermilion it’s a joke! Because the vocalese mimicking instruments. Granted not the best joke
Cyrille Aimee’s album “It’s A Good Day.” It’s got two killer guitarists on it, and Cyrille is a fantastic singer.
Charlie Hunter & Silvana Estrada - Lo Sagrado
Flora Purim - 500 Miles High (Live) is really cool
Look for Diana Krall albums that feature Russell Malone on guitar. That guy deserves more appreciation than he receives.
"Sarah + 2", the early 1960s album with Sarah Vaughan accompanied by guitarist Barney Kessel and bassist Joe Comfort. When Sarah lets loose on "When Sunny Gets Blue", any singer worth their salt might think about retiring then and there.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned:
Cyrille Aimee and Diego Figueiredo
Here are a few YouTube videos to start:
Gretchen Parlato and Lionel Loueke have a great duo album and on a few of Gretchen’s tracks on earlier albums feature Lionel
This is oddly specific and somehow not unique at all either
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Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass were the first to come to mind for me...