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

  1. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
  2. Sundance
  3. Straight Ahead
  4. Laura
  5. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (with Ran Blake)
  6. Subway Couple
  7. I Thought About You
  8. Your Ballad
  9. Jamaica
  10. Angel Chile
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  1. Summertime
  2. Yeh Come T'be
  3. Conspiracy
  4. Blue Monk
  5. Caravan
  6. Laura (with Ran Blake)
  7. Where Flamingos Fly
  8. Season In The Sun
  9. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
  10. Love Isn't Everything
  11. Mingus Meditations
  12. Lover Man
  13. Evil Blues
  14. Summertime (with Ran Blake)
  15. When Sunny Gets Blue
  16. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
  17. Left Alone
  18. Church on Russell Street
  19. I Could Write A Book
  20. Vanguard
  21. The Miracle Is
  22. The Miracle
  23. You Go To My Head
  24. Blue Monk (with Ran Blake)
  25. Where Flamingos Fly (with Ran Blake)
  26. Yeh Come T' Be
  27. Every Time We Say Goodbye
  28. Free Space
  29. Church on Russell Street (with Ran Blake)
  30. The Miracle is You
  31. Season in the Sun (with Ran Blake)
  32. Love Isn't Everything (with Ran Blake)
  33. Evil Blues (with Ran Blake)
  34. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
  35. Fire Waltz
  36. Lover Man (with Ran Blake)
  37. When Sunny Gets Blue (with Ran Blake)
  38. Trilogy
  39. Left Alone (with Ran Blake)
  40. Vanguard (with Ran Blake)
  41. Journey To Edaneres
  42. Worry Now Later
  43. Straight Ahead (with Ran Blake)
  44. I Thougt About You
  45. Peace Chorale
  46. Journey To Edanares
  47. Ambrosia Mama
  48. You Stepped Out of a Dream
  49. Beauty is a Rarity
  50. Ambrosia Mama / Celebration of a State of Grace
  51. Newswatch
  52. Lonely Woman (Live)
  53. The Wind
  54. I Like Your Style
  55. Where Are You?
  56. Alone Together
  57. Mysterioso "Rose"
  58. Goodbye Pork-Pie Hat
  59. Corcovado
  60. Goodbye Pork - Pie Hat
  61. Church On Russel Street
  62. Journal d'une Folle
  63. Last Days/Hands
  64. Kristallnacht
  65. Where Will You Be? (Live)
  66. The Outcast (Live)
  67. The Miracle Is...
  68. Peace Choral I / Bushwhacked / Peace Choral II
  69. Peace Chorale I / Bushwhacked / Peace Chorale II
  70. One Mint Julep (Live)
  71. Sorry, Brother
  72. Don't Freeze Yourself To Death Over There In Those Mountains
  73. Ambrosia Mama (Celebration of a State of Grace)
  74. Bruckner Boulevard
  75. You Got Ti My Head
  76. Round About (Live)
  77. Wha's 9?
  78. Trilogy (Beauty Is A Rarity / I Move And Set The Ways / Silence Dance)
  79. Bushwhacked
  80. Sermonette (Live)
  81. Andalusian Proverb - Live: Baden Baden, Germany 17 Dec '67
  82. Season in the Sun (feat. George Duvivier)
  83. Free Space (Instrumental)
  84. Evil Blues (feat. George Duvivier)
  85. Rain
  86. there is a balm in gilead
  87. Yeh Come T'beh
  88. Ambrosia Mama / Celebration Of A State Of Grace (Instrumental)
  89. You Stepped Out Of A Dream - Eng 11 Août 1989 Boston
  90. He's Got a Whole World in His Hands

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