Can you recommend some modern swing singers?!

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May 2, 2012, 10:35

Hi, I need some suggestions for singers of swing pieces, with standard big band arrangements, but with today's sound quality.

Someone like Bublé, in short, and not necessarily an interpreter of standards only, but anyway with a somewhat lively swing....

i can't find anything on the internet, only Brian Setzer, but what I've listened to seems too rock'n'roll to me....

thanks

BackSpace

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May 2, 2012, 10:43

...and Corinne Drewery?

AleGozzo

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May 2, 2012, 12:41

thanks for the report, but the swing out sisters are very pop; if she has done swing/big band as a soloist, I haven't been able to find it.

let me know if anything comes up

Bit

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May 2, 2012, 14:54

Try also with Al Jarreau or vocal groups like the Manhattan Transfer

DrJellyfish

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May 2, 2012, 15:11

David Linx and Maria Pia De Vito have done some work with big bands.

AleGozzo

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May 2, 2012, 15:58

mmm I found little big band swing, and Jelly's are a bit too refined and not very "lively", I would need something more down-to-earth, pleasant even for those who aren't enthusiasts.

anyway thanks and don't rack your brains, if you happen to think of anything else just let me know

bye

DrJellyfish

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May 2, 2012, 16:48

something like this? ;-)

Open content (youtube)

AleGozzo

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May 2, 2012, 17:08

oh yeah man !!!

now I'm going to dig through this paul anka a bit

AleGozzo

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May 2, 2012, 17:13

hey but .... is paul anka famous ???!!!

pensavo che ormai fosse mummificato . ...

DrJellyfish

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May 2, 2012, 17:22

Him exactly! A few years ago he made a CD with various covers (Van Halen, Bon Jovi etc...) with a big band.