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Sylvia Syms

Sylvia Syms

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

In a 1995 Jazz Times review of a Sylvia Syms CD, I wrote:

Sylvia Syms had a vibrato like a telephone wire in a breeze. She sometimes slid around both sides of a note before she settled on it. She often added the syllable “uh" to the end of a word ("ridin' on the moon-uh"). She could pounce on a consonant and ignore the vowel next door. Some of her power notes were pure brass and there were ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Lovingly

Mash Productions
1976

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Love Lady

Mash Productions
1970

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In A Sentimental Mood

Mash Productions
1967

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Sylvia Is!

Mash Productions
1965

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The Fabulous Sylvia...

Mash Productions
1964

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