Jazz singer Sheila Jordan died. What was her best work, /mu/? Thread theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_QDuETP0PI

>Sheila Jordan, one of the great underappreciated voices in jazz, has died at the age of 96.

>Despite a career that unfolded in fits and starts due to racial tensions, a troubled marriage and the challenges of single motherhood, Jordan recorded one of the most beloved vocal jazz records of the 1960s, Portrait of Sheila on Blue Note Records, and was recognized 50 years later by the National Endowment of the Arts as a Jazz Master, the genre's highest honor.

>Jordan's discography grew exponentially as she aged; she recorded at least 19 albums after the turn of the century, including this year's Portrait Now. It was released on the day of her final live performance: Valentine's Day.

>Born Sheila Jeanette Dawson to a financially struggling family in Detroit in November of 1928, she was raised by alcoholic grandparents in Pennsylvania coal country. Jordan told NPR in 2014 that she was unhappy as a child, and the only thing she could do about it was sing. Then one day, she spotted something intriguing on a jukebox: Charlie Parker's Reboppers.

"And I put my nickel in, and up came Bird, playing 'Now is the Time,' and I said that's the music," she said. "That's the one I'll dedicate my life to."

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/847306270/sheila-jordan-obituary

A pleasant tune
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>>127366321 (OP)
RIP That's a long life. I saw her live. The one you posted is her best.

>>127369136
& I meant that whole Blue Note album is the best, it has some nice understated guitar and I like it more than her bass duo stuff or albums with horn players.
https://youtu.be/2S2iGcBQ1HI
https://youtu.be/jqgNHSopOjU

Amazing album, I'll have to check out more of her stuff

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https://youtu.be/kqaQKnNRf-4

Helen Merrill is still with us, she's a year younger than Jordan.

>>127366321 (OP)
>Born Sheila Jeanette Dawson to a financially struggling family in Detroit in November of 1928, she was raised by alcoholic grandparents in Pennsylvania coal country. Jordan told NPR in 2014 that she was unhappy as a child, and the only thing she could do about it was sing. Then one day, she spotted something intriguing on a jukebox: Charlie Parker's Reboppers.
if she was a Millenial her parents would be Sony executives and she would make the world's shittiest buttindie music nobody listens to

>>127366321 (OP)
>Then one day, she spotted something intriguing on a jukebox: Charlie Parker's Reboppers
as anon said in that Frankie Laine thread the other day, another ordinary white kid rescued by black music

>>127372394
+ she'd have an OnlyFans

>>127372347
what the fuck is that supposed to mean

>>127366321 (OP)
Never heard of her before this thread. Listening to the first track of the album, its like smooth jazz with a woman singing over it. Digging it so far, might be to classical jazz for my taste but we will see. More of an Etta James sort of powerhouse man.