Ann Dupont

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Ann Dupont (actually Ann Bata , born January 2, 1915 in Universal , Pennsylvania , † April 29, 1998 ) was an American jazz musician ( clarinetist , band leader , singer), who was known in the swing era as "Queen of the Clarinet" and was compared to Artie Shaw .

Live and act

Dupont, who grew up in Florida, began studying the violin at the age of nine and then the clarinet. She first played in women's bands in Florida and Louisiana before declaring in 1939 that she only wanted to play with men. In the summer of 1939 she formed her own fourteen-piece big band, with which she performed in hotels and clubs in the New York area. Down Beat rated her as a good clarinetist with an "unrestrained, wild style" who led a powerful band. In 1943, Billboard reported that she had received an honorary doctorate from the College of the City of New York, "an honor previously reserved for Benny Goodman ." That same year, however, she broke up her big band to work in the quartet. In 1945 she accompanied the vocal ensemble The Four Blues on " The Things You want the Most of All / Oh Daddy, Please Bring That Suitcase In ". After they married in 1945, she moved to Ohio , where she continued to perform before working as a real estate agent .

literature

  • Linda Dahl Stormy Wheather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazz Women London 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ann Dupont in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ See Jeffery M. Dorwart Cape May County, New Jersey: The Making of an American resort 1992, p. 231, and Lucy O'Brien She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul , 2002, p .31
  3. ↑ Karlton E. Hester From Africa to Afrocentric Innovations Some Call "Jazz" Vol. 2 , p.154.
  4. ↑ See Sally Placksin Women in Jazz: From the turn of the century to the present Vienna 1989, p. 107
  5. ^ Billboard, August 28, 1943
  6. ↑ discography
  7. ^ Billboard 22 Sep 1945
personal data
SURNAME Dupont, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Du Pont, Ann; Maki, Ann (married)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (clarinetist, band leader, singer)
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Universal , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1998