"I can't begin to tell you how many pages of art I have trawled though and not found anything that actually spoke to me, until I came across your website.”
Gary Giddins, renowned Village Voice music critic, rated her, alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, as one of the essential female voices of the genre, frequently highlighting her ability to manipulate vocal textures, volumes, and complex improvisations with unprecedented skill. She was jazz opera. He's right. Check out her sublime version of April In Paris from 1954, her voice catching in the middle eight: "I never knew the charm of spring, I never met it face to face..."
