Jeanne Lee
About the artist
Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 - October 25, 2000) was a jazz singer. Born in New York, New York, she was one of the foremost exponents of free jazz in the vocal application. Her singing style included moods that were sensual, somber, and sensitive. She sang in styles that included standard lyrics as well as free-form scat singing. Writers have described her style as being influenced by Peruvian singer, Yma Sumac. [1]. Her career started soon after her dance studies at Bard College, (BA, 1961).
Top songs
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Sundance
- Straight Ahead
- Laura
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (with Ran Blake)
- Subway Couple
- I Thought About You
- Your Ballad
- Jamaica
- Angel Chile
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- Summertime
- Yeh Come T'be
- Conspiracy
- Blue Monk
- Caravan
- Laura (with Ran Blake)
- Where Flamingos Fly
- Season In The Sun
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Love Isn't Everything
- Mingus Meditations
- Lover Man
- Evil Blues
- Summertime (with Ran Blake)
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
- Left Alone
- Church on Russell Street
- I Could Write A Book
- Vanguard
- The Miracle Is
- The Miracle
- You Go To My Head
- Blue Monk (with Ran Blake)
- Where Flamingos Fly (with Ran Blake)
- Yeh Come T' Be
- Every Time We Say Goodbye
- Free Space
- Church on Russell Street (with Ran Blake)
- The Miracle is You
- Season in the Sun (with Ran Blake)
- Love Isn't Everything (with Ran Blake)
- Evil Blues (with Ran Blake)
- I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
- Fire Waltz
- Lover Man (with Ran Blake)
- When Sunny Gets Blue (with Ran Blake)
- Trilogy
- Left Alone (with Ran Blake)
- Vanguard (with Ran Blake)
- Journey To Edaneres
- Worry Now Later
- Straight Ahead (with Ran Blake)
- I Thougt About You
- Peace Chorale
- Journey To Edanares
- Ambrosia Mama
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- Beauty is a Rarity
- Ambrosia Mama / Celebration of a State of Grace
- Newswatch
- Lonely Woman (Live)
- The Wind
- I Like Your Style
- Where Are You?
- Alone Together
- Mysterioso "Rose"
- Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat
- Corcovado
- Goodbye Pork - Pie Hat
- Church On Russel Street
- Journal d'une Folle
- Last Days/Hands
- Kristallnacht
- Where Will You Be? (Live)
- The Outcast (Live)
- The Miracle Is...
- Peace Choral I / Bushwhacked / Peace Choral II
- Peace Chorale I / Bushwhacked / Peace Chorale II
- One Mint Julep (Live)
- Sorry, Brother
- Don't Freeze Yourself To Death Over There In Those Mountains
- Ambrosia Mama (Celebration of a State of Grace)
- Bruckner Boulevard
- You Got Ti My Head
- Round About (Live)
- Wha's 9?
- Trilogy (Beauty Is A Rarity / I Move And Set The Ways / Silence Dance)
- Bushwhacked
- Sermonette (Live)
- Andalusian Proverb - Live: Baden Baden, Germany 17 Dec '67
- Season in the Sun (feat. George Duvivier)
- Free Space (Instrumental)
- Evil Blues (feat. George Duvivier)
- Rain
- there is a balm in gilead
- Yeh Come T'beh
- Ambrosia Mama / Celebration Of A State Of Grace (Instrumental)
- You Stepped Out Of A Dream - Eng 11 Août 1989 Boston
- He's Got a Whole World in His Hands
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