Jazz Articles about Mary May

Mary May: This Is What You Are

by Chris Mosey
July 23, 2015

When Mary May heard Sarah Vaughan sing “If I Loved You" it blew her away. “She sang in a way I had never heard anyone sing before." Then came Anita O'Day, Nancy Wilson and Marion Montgomery. They all made May yearn to follow in their footsteps. But Scots being--famously--careful people, it took a long time before May would opt for a career as a jazz singer, scarcely the most steady of occupations. She continued ...