Jeanie Lambe

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Jeanie Lambe (born December 23, 1940 in Glasgow - † May 29, 2020 in Perth ) was a British jazz singer .

Live and act

Lambe, who first appeared with her parents, sang with the Clyde Valley Stompers at the age of 17 , then with the sextet of Alex Sutherland. After performing with Kenny Ball , she moved to England, where she recorded with George Chisholm in 1961 and initially continued to perform with traditional jazz bands from London, especially Ball and Mike Cotton, but also with Chris Barber , Acker Bilk and Alex Welsh , Bruce Turner or the Dutch Swing College Band . After attending a concert by Jazz at the Philharmonic , where she saw Ella Fitzgerald , she switched to modern jazz . After sessions at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, she was featured on the front page of Melody Maker as "the bardot of British jazz". In the 1960s and beyond, she appeared almost weekly in television series such as At the Eleventh Hour, That Was the Week That Was, Jukebox Jury, Between the Lines, Les Dawsons Show Sez Les, Top Score or The Buddy Bregman Show and also played in movies with.

Lambe appeared in combos under the direction of her husband Danny Moss , with whose quartet she also released records (after maternity leave) and recorded them for BBC radio. They have also given concerts at international jazz festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival , the Nice Jazz Festival , the JazzFest Berlin and the Jazz Fest Vienna . She migrated to Australia with Moss in 1989, but continued to tour America and Europe annually. Throughout her career, Lambe has sung with musicians such as Monty Alexander , Ben Webster , Budd Johnson , Oscar Peterson , Wild Bill Davison , Kenny Davern , Joe Pass and Buddy Tate .

Discographic notes

  • Kenny Day , Barbara Jay , Jo Searle , Jeannie Lambe Mary Poppins (World Record Club, 1966)
  • Jeanie Lambe and the Danny Moss Quartet ( Flyright Records , 1980)
  • Jeanie Lambe with the UK All Stars Blues and All that Jazz (Zodiac Records, 1982)
  • Jeanie Lambe and the Danny Moss Quartet The Midnight Sun (Zodiac Records, 1984)
  • Jeanie Lambe and the Danny Moss Quartet My Man (Zodiac Records, 1988)
  • Three Great Concerts - Live in Hamburg 1993–1995 ( Nagel-Heyer Records , 1996)
  • Jeanie Lambe and the Danny Moss Quartet The Blue Noise Session (Nagel-Heyer Records, 1999)

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  1. ↑ a b c Jeanie Lambe, legendary Glasgow jazz singer dies aged 79 www.glasglowtimes.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Lambe, Jeanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2020
Place of death Perth