On Jul 14, 7:30=A0am, Mike O'Sullivan <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Not my sort of music, but actually she's got a pretty good voice. At
> least she sounds like a woman when she sings, not a teenybopper!
Yeah, I hear you.
I need to clarify.
I think my beef is not with Amy Winehouse (or even the fact she's
called a jazz singer), just how I've NEVER heard her referred to as a
Jazz singer until that article, which seems to coincide with her
problems. I admit that I don't read a great deal about the current
scene, so maybe she's been considered a jazz singer for years but
it's almost like now that she's deemed to hit rock bottom, somehow
this means she must be called a jazz singer. Really weird coincidence.
Don't you think?
My problem is with the MEDIA in general and this article in
particular, not Amy Winehouse or her singing. She at least sounds like
she's got some mileage on her!
I might remind all here that the Reuters article starts
"By Cindy Martin
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British *jazz* singer Amy Winehouse took
part... "
Is the first thing that pops into peoples' heads, when they hear Amy
Winehouse or see a story about her, is that she's a jazz singer?
The word jazz is just so overused and so easily used to describe
something that is difficult to categorize, IMO.
Mark
PS,
A jazz (whatever THAT means) vocalist friend of mine sent me this:
"Isn't a Jazz Singer supposed to be someone who sings Jazz? Amy
Winehouse is "cool" I suppose and has neato hair and a LOT of eyeliner
and a vocal timbre that may be vaguely reminiscent of those of certain
past titans of vocal jazz we revere. But is the music she sings Jazz
or is it simply jazz tinged R&B and Pop ... I am all for jazz tinged R
& B and Pop I just don't feel the need to call every modern singer I
like a Jazz singer. Why oh why does every cool new thing have to be
"The New Jazz" ??????"
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