Music Collection On History Of Jazz Vocalist
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Host Bob Edwards talks with Robert O'Meally, the producer of a new collection of recordings by the Smithsonian Institution that chronicles the history of the jazz vocalist. In the first of a two-part piece (Part 2 airs tomorrow), O'Meally talks about the use of the voice as an instrument in jazz and cites such singers as Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald as being masters of the form. [This segment has been edited.]
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