Person · Female

Annie Ross

From: Mitcham, United Kingdom
Active: 1930–2020
Releases: 30

jazz
vocalese

About

Annie Ross (born Annabelle Allan Short; 25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020) was a British and American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She helped pioneer the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy watchfulness that is a definition of 1950s hip." In 2010, she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

As an actress, Ross appeared in films like Alfie Darling (1976), Yanks (1979), Superman III (1983), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Pump Up the Volume (1990), and The Player (1992), and had a starring role on the Scottish Television comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire. She also starred in West End and Broadway musicals, including as Jenny Diver in the 1972 revival of The Threepenny Opera. During the 1960s and 1970s, she ran a nightclub in London.
Kenneth Tynan, who wrote liner notes for Ross, called her "a fallen angel [who] moves us and then brushes off our sympathy with a shrug of her lips."

From Annie Ross on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.