With his two albums on the Mack Avenue label — "Eyes Wide Open," from 2007, and "We Move," from last year — Mr. Vasandani has made his case for a limber, pop-literate, semi-confessional strain of modern jazz singing.
When you listen to these two modern divas singing "Ombra mai fù" side by side, you begin to mistrust recording as a medium: beauty of this order shouldn't be turned on at the touch of a button.
In 1949 he began recording for Modern Records, singing and playing the piano, and occasionally the harmonica, with the support of musicians including the saxophonist and arranger Maxwell Davis and the guitarists Robert Kelton and Lafayette Thomas.
(Chinen) Sachal Vasandani (Tuesday and Wednesday) With each of his three albums on the Mack Avenue label — the most recent being "Hi-Fly," released in 2011 — Mr. Vasandani has made his case for a limber, pop-literate, semi-confessional strain of modern jazz singing.
Many of the historic choirs survive in modern Wales, singing a mixture of traditional and popular songs.
They chant in a supposed African language before breaking into modern English, singing about how glad they are to return to their apartments after the day's performance.
Two men dressed in boaters and flannels (sure, it's a cliche, but I think this one was knowingly post-modern) were singing one of the romantic duets from Sandy Wilson's 1920s pastiche musical The Boyfriend.
Hymns ancient and modern are sung fortissimo.
A lover of music ancient and modern, she sings, has studied African music in The Gambia and claims to play the viola da gamba "incredibly badly".
