The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78209   Message #1403220
Posted By: Azizi
08-Feb-05 - 08:35 PM
Thread Name: Feelin The Blues
Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
Just for the "record"..the 88.3 Carnegie Mellon radio station isn't all Blues..

I'm going to have to contact that station to find out when their Blues shows are on because-well let me say it this way-the music that is on now is not to my liking...

But I still appreciate getting the information.

And re Billie Holliday..I have a used CD that I purchased called Great Ladies Of Jazz..which has Billie Holliday singing "God Bless The Child" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine".

The other women on this CD are
Ella Fitzgerald
Lena Horne
Dinah Washington
Sarah Vaughn
Nina Simone
Abbey Lincoln and
Shirley Horne

Leadfingers, I'm curious. I understand at some point Blues turns into Jazz. Would you [and anyone else can weigh in on this] say that those Billie Holliday songs that I mentioned were Blues or Jazz? And would you categorize any other those other singers as Blues singers also?
Does it depend on the song that they are singing?

Or do these questions open up a large can of worms..?