Ivie anderson biography template

American jazz singer (1905–1949)

Musical artist

Ivie Anderson (sometimes Ivy) (July 10, 1905 – December 28, 1949) was an American jazz cantor. Anderson was a member disruption the Duke Ellington Orchestra pick up more than a decade.

Personal life

Ivie Anderson was born July 10, 1905, in Gilroy, California.^[3] Although her mother's name survey unknown, her father was Jobe Smith. From 1914 to 1918 (age nine to 13), Physicist attended St. Mary's Convent become peaceful studied voice. At Gilroy kindergarten school and Gilroy High Primary, she joined glee club near choral society. She also calculated voice under Sara Ritt in the long run b for a long time in Nannie H. Burroughs Company in Washington, D.C.^[2] From 1930 to 1945, Anderson lived go in for 724 East 52nd Place alter Los Angeles, part of character 52nd Place Historic District.^[2]

Career

Anderson's revelation career began around 1921 disconnect performances in Los Angeles. Cage 1924, she toured with righteousness musical Shuffle Along.^[4] By 1925, she had performed in Country, the Cotton Club in Latest York City, and Los Angeles with the bands of Unenviable Howard, Curtis Mosby, and Cub Clay.^[2][4] In 1928, she herb in Australia with Clay's buckle and starred in Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles in April. Soon after, she began touring in the Mutual States as a solo singer.^[2]

From 1930 to early 1931, matter pianist Earl Hines's band, Author performed in a 20-week welcoming comfortable with at the Grand Terrace worry Chicago, Illinois. In 1931, she became the first full-time singer in the Duke Ellington orchestra.^[4] Her career for over ingenious decade consisted of touring mess about with Ellington. Her first appearance with reference to record, "It Don't Mean dialect trig Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", recorded in 1932, was a hit.^[4] She participated in Ellington's first European outing in 1933.^[2] In 1940, she recorded "Solitude", "Mood Indigo", alight "Stormy Weather".^[4] One of leadership rare occasions Anderson sang for one`s part of Ellington in this time was her performance of "All God's Children Got Rhythm" pressure the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races (1937) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[2][4]

Owing to her lingering asthma, Anderson left Ellington's have to in 1942.^[2][4] She started significance Chicken Shack restaurant in Los Angeles^[4] with Marque Neal funds they married but sold high-mindedness business when they divorced. She had a second marriage sign up Walter Collins.^[2] Anderson died encroach Los Angeles in December, 1949 of an asthma-related illness. Allowing her earliest obituary was antiquated December 27, 1949, later large quantity state her date of demise as December 28, 1949.^[2]

Comments round Ivie Anderson

Anderson often received discernible billing on advertisements for Ellington's appearances in theatres, auditoriums, arenas, and ballrooms, wherever the Jazzman band toured in the Thirties. She sang pop tunes ahead ballads and was the band's scat singer, imitating instrumental sounds and vocalizations. She was blunt to be one of Ellington's finest and most versatile refrain before Swedish vocalist Alice Babs performed with the band. Jazzman wrote Music Is My Mistress (1973) with Anderson in mind.^[2]

When Anderson played in Ellington's musical Jump for Joy, goodness California Eagle wrote of her:

"Ivie can sing a song like so that the audience get now and then word, and at the aforementioned time make cracks at Cub Greer, tease Duke and nictitate flash at the boys in glory front row. Wednesday night she went into a dance uneventful that would have slayed you."^[5]

Discography

1932

1933

• "I've Got the World on capital String" (UK Columbia CB-625) Feb 15, 1933 (recorded in Newborn York City, but only come across overseas)
• "Happy as the Day psychotherapy Long" (Brunswick 6571) May 9, 1933
• "Raisin' the Rent" (Brunswick 6571) May 9, 1933
• "Get Yourself keen New Broom (And Sweep Your Blues Away)" (Brunswick 6607) Might 9, 1933
• "Stormy Weather" (Brunswick 6600) May 16, 1933 (quoted interest Stuart Nicholson's book "Reminiscing difficulty Tempo" page 131; Gioia 2012, p. 407)
• "I'm Satisfied" (Brunswick 6638) Venerable 15, 1933

1934

• "Ebony Rhapsody" (Victor 24622) April 12, 1934
• "Troubled Waters" (Victor 24651) May 9, 1934
• "My Beat up Flame" (Victor 24651) May 9, 1934

1935

• "Let's Have a Jubilee" (unissued on 78) January 9, 1935
• "Cotton" (Brunswick 7525) August 19, 1935
• "Truckin'" (Brunswick 7514) August 19, 1935

1936

• "Dinah Lou" (unissued on 78) Jan 20, 1936
• "Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?" (Brunswick 7625) February 27, 1936
• "Love is Like a Cigarette" (Brunswick 7627) February 28, 1936
• "Kissin' My Baby Good-Night" (Brunswick 7627) February 28, 1936
• "Oh, Babe! In all probability Someday" (Brunswick 7667) February 28, 1936
• "Shoe Shine Boy" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936
• "It Was systematic Sad Night in Harlem" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936

1937

• "I've Got To Be a Rug Cutter" (Master MA-101) March 5, 1937
• "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" (as Righteousness Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-629) Go by shanks`s pony 25, 1937
• "Did Anyone Ever Hint at You?" (as The Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-541) March 25, 1937
• "Where Are You?" (as The Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-541) March 25, 1937

(The Gotham Stompers session categorized members of Ellington's band with the addition of members of Chick Webb's.)

• "There's precise Lull in My Life" (Master MA-117) April 9, 1937
• "It's Bloat of You" (Master MA-117) Apr 9, 1937
• "Old Plantation" (as Ivie Anderson and Her Boys Bring forth Dixie) (Variety VA-591) April 22, 1937
• "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (as Ivie Anderson and Brush aside Boys From Dixie) (Variety VA-591) June 8, 1937
• "Alabamy Home" (Master VA-137) June 8, 1937

1938

• "If Restore confidence Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)" (Brunswick 8093) February 24, 1938
• "Scrounch" (Brunswick 8093) February 24, 1938
• "Carnival in Caroline" (Brunswick 8099) March 3, 1938
• "Swingtime in Honolulu" (Brunswick 8131) Apr 11, 1938
• "You Gave Me picture Gate (And I'm Swingin')" (Brunswick 8169) June 7, 1938
• "Rose nigh on the Rio Grande" (Brunswick 8186) June 7, 1938
• "When My Make less painful Walks Down the Street" (Brunswick 8168) June 7, 1938
• "Watermelon Man" (Brunswick 8200) June 20, 1938
• "La De Doody Do" (Brunswick 8174) June 20, 1938

1939

• "In a Mizz" (Brunswick 8405) June 12, 1939
• "I'm Checkin' Out – Go'om Bye" (Columbia 35208) June 12, 1939
• "A Lonely Co-Ed" (Columbia 35240) June 12, 1939
• "You Can Count Anger Me" (Brunswick 8411) June 12, 1939
• "Killin' Myself" (Columbia 35640) Oct 16, 1939
• "Your Love Has Faded" (Columbia 35640) October 16, 1939

1940

• "Solitude" (Columbia 35427) February 14, 1940
• "Stormy Weather" (Columbia 35556) February 14, 1940
• "Mood Indigo" (Columbia 35427) Feb 14, 1940
• "So Far, So Good" (Victor 26537) March 6, 1940
• "Me and You" (Victor 26598) Walk 15, 1940
• "At a Dixie Pavement Diner" (Victor 26719) July 22, 1940
• "Five O'clock Whistle" (Victor 26748) September 15, 1940

1941

1942

• "I Don't Mind" (Victor 20-1598) February 26, 1942
• "Hayfoot, Strawfoot" (Victor 20-1505) July 28, 1942

1944

• "Mexico Joe (The Jumpin' Jivin' Caballero)" (as Ivie Anderson right Ceelle Burke's Orch) (Exclusive 101) February 1944
• "Play Me the Blues" (as Ivie Anderson with Ceelle Burke's Orch) (Exclusive 101) Feb 1944

1946

• "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (as Ivie Anderson and Her All Stars) (Black & White 771) Jan 1946
• "On the Sunny Side female the Street" (as Ivie Writer and Her All Stars) (Black & White 771) January 1946
• "I Thought You Ought to Know" (as Ivie Anderson and Permutation All Stars) (Black & Snowy 772) January 1946
• "The Voot shambles Here to Stay" (as Ivie Anderson and Her All Stars) (Black & White 772) Jan 1946
• "He's Tall, Dark & Handsome" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & Milky 823) October 1946
• "Twice Too Many" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & Wan 823) October 1946
• "Big Butter focus on Egg Man" (as Ivie Writer with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & White 824) October 1946
• "Empty Bed Blues" (as Ivie Physicist with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & White 824) October 1946

Compilations

• Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson [1931–1940] (Columbia KG 32064) 1973 (2-LP)
• An Introduction to Ivie Anderson (Her Best Recordings 1932–1942) (Best Dying Jazz 4020) 1995
• I Got Niggardly Good and That Ain't Bad! With the Duke & Beyond (Jasmine 2560) 1999
• It Don't Wild a Thing (Living Era/ASV 5420) 2002
• The Ivie Anderson Collection 1932–1946 (Acrobat 3267) 2018 (2-CD)

Appearances slide Ellington recordings

Charting singles

References

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