First Impotant Jazz Singer and the Most Influential
Louis Armstrong
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Pre Bop Instrumentalists Who Also sang
Don Redman | Fats Waller |
Jack Teagarden | Hot Lips Page |
Red Allen | Louis Prima |
Wingy Manone | Jelly Roll Morton |
Nat Gonella | Jay McShann |
Woody Herman | Danny Barker |
Nat King Cole | Louis Jordan |
Clancy Hayes | |
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Middle-Of-The-Road Pop Singers who have influenced Jazz
Bing Crosby - Frank Sinatra
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Kansas City Swing / Blues Tradition
Jimmy Rushing | Big Joe Turner |
Jimmy Wihterspoon | Big Miller |
Joe Williams | Ernie Andrews |
Bill Henderson | |
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Two Other Influential Swing Vocalists
Cab Calloway - Billy Eckstine
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Jive Singers
Slim Gaillard - Leo Watson - Harry "The Hipster" Gibson
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Bop and Vocalese
Dizzy Gillespie | Joe Carroll |
Babs Gonzales | Jackie Paris |
Eddie Jefferson | King Pleasure |
Buddy Stewart | Dave Lambert |
Jon Hendricks | |
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R & B
Ray Charles - Charles Brown - Al Jarreau
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More Recent Instrumentalists Who Also Sing
Chet Baker | Clark Terry |
Richard Boone | George Adams |
Grady Tate | George Benson |
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1960s to Present
Mel Torme | Johnny Hartman |
Earl Coleman | Bob Dorough |
Oscar Brown jr. | Mose Allison |
Leon Thomas | Mark Murphy |
Dave Frishberg | Bobby McFerrin |
Kevin Mahogany | Kurt Elling |
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