Learning How to Fly/Fly Me to the Moon Learning How to Fly/Fly
Me to the Moon Inga Swearingen, vocals Ryan Garcia, guitar Clint
Iwanicha, bass Mike Raynor, drums Linda Vanasupa, piano
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Inga Swearingen Jazz Vocalist Inga has received many awards for
her performing including: First Prize and Prize of the Public at
the Montreux Jazz Festival Shure Vocal Competition Numerous
performances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio
show
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JAZZ SINGING Instrumental approach
to the voice Vocal Improvisation Scat singing AND Use of vocal
colors to imitate different instruments, highlight texts or
specific words and/or emotions
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Vocal ColorVocal ColorVocal ColorVocal Color Vocal color is the
varying of vocal timbre to highlight specific texts, words and
emotions. (Dr. Jon Clements, Assistant Professor of Music at
Arkansas Tech University)
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Samples of adjectives used to describe vocal color Dark Breathy
Warm Chocolaty Mellow Silky Bright Husky Steely Smokey Tinny
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INGAS USE OF VOCAL COLORS How would you describe Ingas vocal
color? Do you hear other ways in which she experiments with her
voice to depict an instrument, word or emotion?
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INGAS VOCAL INFLUENCES Bobby McFerrin Ella Fitzgerald Joni
Mitchell Studied voice with Dr. Jon Clements while at Florida State
University
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Resources http://ingaswearingen.com/presskit/ Ware, Clifton.
Basics of Vocal Pedagogy: The Foundations and Process of Singing,
1998. learning how to fly/fly me to the moon. Sabena Start and
Patti Cathcart Andress, Bart Howard, arranged by Inga Swearingen.
Inga Swearingen with Trio 14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing