Patty Waters
Patty Waters ( born March 11, 1946 in Iowa) is an American singer of modern jazz.
Life and work
She grew up with her parents on a dairy farm Iowa Waters began in high school, semi-professional singing and has toured regionally with the first Jerry Gray Hotel Jazz Band. In 1964 she moved to New York City, where Albert Ayler initiated, that they on the free jazz label ESP-Disk could publish two plates Sings (1965) and College Tour ( 1966). Particularly startling was then her 14 minute long free interpretation of the folk song " Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" (from Sings ). With the band of Marzette Watts took Ornette Coleman's Lonely Woman on. She went there but not only in the avant-garde circles, but also with Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard, with Chick Corea, John Hicks, Jaki Byard with Roland Hanna, Ben Webster and Charles Mingus. In 1968 she toured Europe.
In 1969 she left the jazz scene and moved to Mill Valley in California, where she got by as a cashier to educate their ( and Clifford Jarvis ') son. They only appeared occasionally with Art Lande, Steve Swallow and Elliott Zigmund. Only in 1996 they took with pianist Jessica Williams again an album on which she dedicated to Billie Holiday. She was invited to the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1999. With Burton Greene, with whom she grossed their early records, she joined in 2003 at the Visions Festival, but also in Europe, where they toured in 2006 with Henry Grimes.
Effect
Yoko Ono, Diamanda Galás and Patti Smith Patty Waters have stated as an important influence. The rock band Telstar Ponies coverte her song " Moon, Do not Come Up Tonight" and called one of her own songs " Patty Waters ".