Basil Spears

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Basil Spears (born September 28, 1921 in Oklahoma City ; † November 7, 2004 there ) was an American jazz and blues musician ( vocals , piano , organ).

Live and act

Spears, who lived in New York City in the mid-1940s, where she had engagements for 89 weeks in five clubs within two years, recorded the title "I Need a Man" for Manor in 1947; more songs like " 'Deed I Do " followed in 1949, accompanied by Kenneth Roane (trumpet), JJ Johnson (trombone), George James (alto saxophone), Art Lenier (tenor saxophone), John Brown (bass) and Gene Brooks . In 1952 she recorded four more tracks with the Benny Payne Trio (with Everett Barksdale and Joe Benjamin ), namely "You Make Me Feel So Good", "Don't Sing Me No Blues", "I Want a Man to Give Me Some." Luck ”and“ Leave Him Alone and He'll Come Home ”. MGM advertised her as a "true blues singer" ( a real-for-true blues singer ), but no further recordings were made after that. Spears made an appearance in the movie Boy! What a girl! (1947, directed by Arthur H. Leonard ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard, March 10, 1945
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 8, 2018)
  3. ↑ Bruce Bastin: The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916–1978 . Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2012, p. 225.
personal data
SURNAME Spears, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma City
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2004
Place of death Oklahoma City