Annie Ross's recording career needs to be appreciated in two distinct posts—her solo work and her albums with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. Today, my 12 favorite solo recordings from the 1950s, mostly leading up to co-forming the vocalese trio:
Here's Annie Ross's first recording, Le Vent Vert, in Paris in 1950. The abstract song by James Moody is wordles…
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