Ginger smock

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Ginger Smock (actually Emma S. Colbert , born June 4, 1920 ; † 1995 ) was an American musician of rhythm & blues and swing ( violin , also vocals ).

Live and act

Smock based her jazz violin playing stylistically on Stuff Smith , who was her mentor. In 1944 she led the Sepia Tones trio in Los Angeles with organist Nina Russell and pianist Mata Roy. In the mid-1940s she played with Joe Alexander and Red Callender , with whom the first recordings were made. Around 1946 she had the opportunity to do demo recordings with her own quartet; She also recorded with Vivien Garry Quintet ( Girls in Jazz ) for RCA. At the end of the decade she played with Jerome Ty Parsons with His Rhythm-ites and Monette Moore ( The Saleslady of Songs and Her Salesmen with The Harmony Girls ).

In 1951 she led a women's sextet, including Clora Bryant ; with this band she appeared on the show Chicks and the Fiddle by Phil Moore , which was broadcast on CBS. In 1953 she recorded the title "Strange Blues" with a septet around the singer Cecil "Count" Carter (with Callender and Gerry Wiggins, among others ) and appeared on the TV station KTLA's Dixie Showboat (" Blues in the Night ") . In the same year she recorded additional demo material for RCA Victor (as Ginger Smock and The Jackson Brothers Orchestra ). In 1956 she played with Hal Jackson and The Cromatics with Jackson's Tornadoes . In 1961 their only regular album On the SS Catalina with the Shipmates and Ginger was created . In the 1960s and 70s she performed in hotels in Las Vegas a. a. with Sammy Davis, Jr. on. In the field of jazz she was involved in 15 recording sessions between 1945 and 1961. Smock has also performed with the All City Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles .

Smock was married to the musician George "Hack" Jackson (1924-2005, alias Hal Jackson ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remarkable Women of Jazz
  2. ^ Billboard March 11, 1944.
  3. ↑ Kristin A. Mcgee Some Liked it Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959. 2009, p. 211. Wesleyan University Press
  4. ^ The New York Times Television Reviews 2000. Routledge, 2003, p. 372
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 9, 2014). Ken Dryden comments critically in Allmusic that in the 1940s the recording opportunities for an African-American musician like Ginger Smock in the jazz area were very limited.
  6. ^ Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues: A Regional Experience . 2013. p. 77
personal data
SURNAME Smock, Ginger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colbert, Emma S. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and R&B musician (violin, also vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1920
DATE OF DEATH 1995