Miss Midori

Sporting 1940s-like apparel, Miss Midori is one of the artists who arrived from the retro-swing trend from the 1990s. The vocalist drew on affects which range from Billie Vacation and Dinah Washington to Peggy Lee, but her funny, sometimes campy undertake 1940s golf swing and leap blues wasn’t targeted at jazz purists–rather, Midori’s market consisted of the sort of 1990s youths who preferred groups just like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Big Poor Voodoo Daddy. Located in Chicago, Midori and her music group the Jazz Inquisition obtained a small regional following within the 1990s, and it had been within the Windy Town that she found the eye of pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow’s Southport Information. Midori agreed upon with Southport in 1998, when she documented her debut record, Miss Midori as well as the Jazz Inquisition, for the label.