Not so strange maybe but I can fully understand why you all have mentioned everyone here. At different times in my life I possibly felt the same way about almost all of those cited. It was being receptive to what the artists were saying that made the distinctions.

And when I saw Chet Baker listed, at first I thought of his trumpet. Then his voice--that was a real reflection of the sounds coming out of his horn.

Jack Teagarden's vocals were in the same catagory for me---as was a lot of Julie London.

So were Horton Barker, Cisco Houston, Emery DeNoyer (Libr. Of Congress recordings), early Joan Baez, Jo Stafford, Charlie Butler...

Just a few that come to mind.

Art Thieme