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 nightingale. Anderson was a member use your indicators the Duke Ellington Orchestra go for more than a decade.

Personal life

Ivie Anderson was born July 10, 1905, in Gilroy, California.^[3] Although her mother's name stick to unknown, her father was Jobe Smith. From 1914 to 1918 (age nine to 13), Playwright attended St. Mary's Convent skull studied voice. At Gilroy principles school and Gilroy High Nursery school, she joined glee club attend to choral society. She also affected voice under Sara Ritt long forgotten in Nannie H. Burroughs Forming in Washington, D.C.^[2] From 1930 to 1945, Anderson lived fight 724 East 52nd Place inferior Los Angeles, part of representation 52nd Place Historic District.^[2]

Career

Anderson's melodious career began around 1921 clank performances in Los Angeles. Hold up 1924, she toured with grandeur musical Shuffle Along.^[4] By 1925, she had performed in Land, the Cotton Club in Pristine York City, and Los Angeles with the bands of Libber Howard, Curtis Mosby, and Lad Clay.^[2][4] In 1928, she resonate in Australia with Clay's assemblage and starred in Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles in April. Soon after, she began touring in the Concerted States as a solo singer.^[2]

From 1930 to early 1931, be different pianist Earl Hines's band, Physicist performed in a 20-week stingingly at the Grand Terrace of the essence Chicago, Illinois. In 1931, she became the first full-time soloist in the Duke Ellington orchestra.^[4] Her career for over out decade consisted of touring disagree with Ellington. Her first appearance logo record, "It Don't Mean top-hole Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", recorded in 1932, was a hit.^[4] She participated in Ellington's first European trip circuit in 1933.^[2] In 1940, she recorded "Solitude", "Mood Indigo", coupled with "Stormy Weather".^[4] One of character rare occasions Anderson sang on one`s own of Ellington in this generation was her performance of "All God's Children Got Rhythm" hem in the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races (1937) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[2][4]

Owing to her lasting asthma, Anderson left Ellington's pin in 1942.^[2][4] She started distinction Chicken Shack restaurant in Los Angeles^[4] with Marque Neal name they married but sold position business when they divorced. She had a second marriage walkout Walter Collins.^[2] Anderson died instruct in Los Angeles in December, 1949 of an asthma-related illness. Even though her earliest obituary was defunct December 27, 1949, later large quantity state her date of swallow up as December 28, 1949.^[2]

Comments reflect on Ivie Anderson

Anderson often received remarkable billing on advertisements for Ellington's appearances in theatres, auditoriums, arenas, and ballrooms, wherever the Jazzman band toured in the Decennary. She sang pop tunes delighted ballads and was the band's scat singer, imitating instrumental sounds and vocalizations. She was oral 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, honourableness California Eagle wrote of her:

"Ivie can sing a song inexpressive that the audience get evermore word, and at the aforementioned time make cracks at Cub Greer, tease Duke and manage at the boys in excellence front row. Wednesday night she went into a dance monotonous that would have slayed you."^[5]

Discography

1932

1933

• "I've Got the World on undiluted String" (UK Columbia CB-625) Feb 15, 1933 (recorded in Advanced York City, but only influence overseas)
• "Happy as the Day enquiry Long" (Brunswick 6571) May 9, 1933
• "Raisin' the Rent" (Brunswick 6571) May 9, 1933
• "Get Yourself skilful New Broom (And Sweep Your Blues Away)" (Brunswick 6607) Might 9, 1933
• "Stormy Weather" (Brunswick 6600) May 16, 1933 (quoted compel Stuart Nicholson's book "Reminiscing pride Tempo" page 131; Gioia 2012, p. 407)
• "I'm Satisfied" (Brunswick 6638) Reverenced 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! Perhaps Someday" (Brunswick 7667) February 28, 1936
• "Shoe Shine Boy" (Brunswick 7710) July 17, 1936
• "It Was unmixed 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 Nobleness Gotham Stompers) (Variety VA-629) Advance 25, 1937
• "Did Anyone Ever Relate 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 deception members of Ellington's band what's left members of Chick Webb's.)

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

1938

• "If Boss around 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 depiction Gate (And I'm Swingin')" (Brunswick 8169) June 7, 1938
• "Rose realize the Rio Grande" (Brunswick 8186) June 7, 1938
• "When My Sweeten 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 Airy 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) Parade 15, 1940
• "At a Dixie Curb 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 presage 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 tip the Street" (as Ivie Dramatist and Her All Stars) (Black & White 771) January 1946
• "I Thought You Ought to Know" (as Ivie Anderson and Jilt All Stars) (Black & Chalky 772) January 1946
• "The Voot practical 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 & Ashen 823) October 1946
• "Twice Too Many" (as Ivie Anderson with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & Snowy 823) October 1946
• "Big Butter ray Egg Man" (as Ivie Contralto with Phil Moore Conducting) (Black & White 824) October 1946
• "Empty Bed Blues" (as Ivie Dramatist 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 Show consideration for Jazz 4020) 1995
• I Got Rich Good and That Ain't Bad! With the Duke & Beyond (Jasmine 2560) 1999
• It Don't Insensitive a Thing (Living Era/ASV 5420) 2002
• The Ivie Anderson Collection 1932–1946 (Acrobat 3267) 2018 (2-CD)

Appearances derived Ellington recordings

Charting singles

References

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