She grew up near Denver,Colorado, listening to recordings by John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker.

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has drawn comparisons to jazz divas Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

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Kyle says,"I met a lot of artists, greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan, and looking back on that, I can see how much the musicians I met there influenced my career."

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Ms Cohodas acknowledges that the singer lacked the suppleness of such divas as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

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And throughout his career, he's worked with such music greats as Paul Simon, Wayne Shorter, Peter Gabriel and Sarah Vaughan.

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Here are the pleasures any jazz lover would expect elegant scatting from Ella Fitzgerald, an incomparably rich Ellington ballad by Sarah Vaughan, and Jimmy Rushing shouting the blues.

ECONOMIST: Jazz singers