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It's Magic
by Claudette Stone and George Van Eps
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Female vocalists and the jazz idiom have matured together over the years. It began during the '20s, when bootleg booze and bawdy blues singers braced the scene. The parallel maturation also occurred on the vaudeville circuits, in cabarets, and on the Broadway stage. The covey of stylized songstresses that evolved from those varied roots included Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Kay Starr, Pat Yankee, Helen Forrest, Mildred Bailey, Maxine Sullivan, etc. During the swing era of the '30s and '40s, an attractive young gal always decorated the bandstand - and occasionally warbled a ballad between the big bands' "killer-diller" dance numbers. When festivals became the prime source of traditional jazz entertainment, we grew accustomed to hearing hip-swaying "Red Hot Mamas" dressed in frilly flapper gowns. Sometimes they displayed more skin than tuneful savvy, but we tolerated them awaiting the next instrumental number. Then Dick Johnson's Mardi Gras Band came upon the scene with a classy vocalist, Claudette Stone. She showed us how a lady who sings with a band should dress - and how she should sing a song! 12 Tracks
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