Sheila Jordan

Person · Open Library

Born

1933

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1928-11-18

Active to

2025-08-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

31,319

Total plays

147,935

Sheila Dawson (born Sheila Jeannette Dawson in Detroit, Michigan, on 18 November 1928; died 11 August 2025) was an American jazz singer whose career spanned six decades. She recorded as a session musician with an array of critically acclaimed artists in addition to recording her own albums. Jordan pioneered a bebop and scat jazz singing style with an upright bass as the only accompaniment. Raised in poverty in Pennsylvania’s coal-mining country <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sheila+Jordan

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,989x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,207x

4. The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

   · 2011 · cited 9,224x

5. From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees

   · 2020 · cited 8,692x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jeanette

Family name

Dawson

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Detroit

Place of death

New York City

Spouse

Duke Jordan

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

English language

Award

NEA Jazz Masters

Genre

free jazz

Instrument

voice

Record label

ECM Records

Official website

www.sheilajordanjazz.com

Image

Sheila Jordan in 1985.jpg

Number of children

1

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