compare and contrast three musical artists from any of the following periods

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Jazz , Blues and Contemporary Musicians

Jazz and Blues appear to intersect on many occasions and both styles are deeply influenced by Negro spiritual music . We take a look at these musical periods with particular reference to artists who have exemplified the fields of Jazz and Blues as well as their influence on contemporary artists . Often compared to her American counterpart Norah Jones , British artist Katie Melua has taken the world by storm with her albums , but her roots lie in Jazz and Blues . Clearly influenced by singers

Ella Fitzgerald and Eva Cassidy (jazz , she describes how she admires the work of both artists on her album Call Off The Search (Melua , 2004 : Dramatico Records . While we examine Melua 's influence on music we also look at the work of Billie Holliday as a Jazz musician and BB King as a Blues artist who is perhaps sidelined in terms of his effect on the music world

Katie Melua 's first album Call Off The Search ' was released in 2004 with a mix of blues , jazz and rock that complimented her velvety voice The instrumental choices are what essentially divide the blues taste from the jazz ones in this album . Call Off The Search ' and Learning The Blues ' are mellow , with a full compliment of string instruments from the Irish Film Orchestra (Melua , 2004 : Dramatico Records Crawling Up a Hill ' has a blues beat but with heavy emphasis placed on wind instruments as well as numerous guitar breaks (both electric and acoustic . The feel is very similar to her older contemporary Eric Clapton which is best seen in her version of Mockingbird Song . In her first album it is evident that the eclectic influences of the classical masters are vivid in her experimentation . The Closest Thing To Crazy ' exhibits Melua 's interest in Ella Fitzgerald , with the emphasis primarily on vocals . Here the vocals are strong and her voice experiments with how much range can be exploited in one song . The jazz singers such as Holliday , Fitzgerald and Cassidy had the ability to project their voices from deep and intercostals to high and nasal in a short but controlled space of time . This is partly in the effort to make the voice into the instrument , as seen in her playful My Aphrodisiac is You , where if you were to remove the piano and saxophone the voice itself would suffice . If we compared this to Billie Holiday 's God Bless The Child , very little supporting instrument was used Learning the Blues ' can be compared to Randy Crawford and Aretha Franklin but perhaps with less vocal depth which is apparently to be expected in a recorded version . In fact , the use of modern instrumentals has somewhat `lost ' the vocals even in accomplished modern jazz singers such as the aforementioned Norah Jones . Less had been more , making the voice the imperative instrument , but in this case the backing music waters down the talent of the vocalist

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