Browsing: jazz vocals

Cab Calloway didn’t just sing jazz – he sold America a whole new sound, style, and slang. Here’s how his showmanship reshaped culture.

Carmen McRae turned songs into conversations: razor phrasing, zero hype, all truth. Here’s how she earned a five-decade legacy without shouting.

More than a singer, Amy Winehouse weaponized honesty. Unpack Back to Black, her jazz-soul toolkit, and the legacy that still stings.

From a teenage expulsion to Back to Black myth-making, here’s what really powered Amy Winehouse’s raw voice, style, and lasting influence.

From swing-era powerhouse to Verve icon and late-career survivor, Ella Fitzgerald’s five career eras show how greatness adapts (and sometimes refuses to).

Winehouse treated her voice like an instrument: jazz phrasing, nightly reinvention, and a fearless refusal to “sing it the same.”