Playlist
Sheila Jordan Essentials
Apple Music Jazz
Tracks: 23137:53
A great jazz improviser whose instrument is the voice.
Updated Jan 5, 2018
Tracks 23
- 1Better Than Anything (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live]6:37
- 2Blue Note Women In Jazz2:42
- 3The Outer View11:52
- 4Straight Ahead5:14
- 5The Water Is Wide6:36
- 6Sheila3:27
- 7Portrait of Sheila2:13
- 8Winter Sunshine8:19
- 9Sheila4:53
- 10Flexible Flyer5:39
- 11Sheila3:24
- 1230+70 - the 100 Years of George Gruntz3:14
- 13Fly Away8:08
- 14Winter Sunshine8:51
- 15The Water Is Wide7:42
- 16Winter Sunshine6:57
- 17Portrait of Sheila2:33
- 18Better Than Anything (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live]5:53
- 19Straight Ahead5:13
- 20Sheila2:54
- 21Better Than Anything (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live]6:28
- 22The Royal Bopsters Project4:57
- 23Better Than Anything (feat. Harvie S & Alan Broadbent) [Live]13:55
About this playlist
Sheila Jordan was a jazz singer's jazz singer, a master of phrasing, inhabiting the sentiment of lyrics and improvising in a way that goes way behind scatting: On “Better Than Anything” she spontaneously introduces her bandmates in song. In the early ’50s she moved to New York, befriending bebop great Charlie Parker before his death and marrying his pianist Duke Jordan. She never stopped embodying the music’s improvisational spirit without sacrificing the art of melody; her blend of rhythmic agility and concise phrasing was evident on “Baltimore Oriole” from her 1962 debut, qualities undiminished more than five decades later on “The Meaning of the Blues”. Jordan passed away in 2025 at age 96.