Gladys Palmer

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Gladys Palmer
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Gladys Palmer (* before 1935 Kingston (Jamaica) , † after 1946) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, pianist and composer .

Life

Gladys Palmer came to the United States at the age of seven; her mother was a singer, her father a pianist who gave lessons to his daughter. In the USA she continued this education - influenced by Duke Ellington and Fats Waller . She wrote the boogie-woogie composition "Palmer's Boogie," which later appeared on Miracle Records . Even during her time in high school, she performed professionally as a singer and had an extended engagement at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta , where she was discovered by producers J. Mayo Williams and Dave Kapp of Decca Records . They brought her to Chicago to be accepted as a soloist in 1935; In 1937 a session with Roy Eldridge followed ("That Thing" / " After You've Gone ").

Palmer then settled in Chicago and performed for a long time in the Three Deuces . From 1937 to 1940 she had engagements in New York clubs and then returned to Chicago. From 1942 to 1946 she lived in Hollywood, but occasionally came to Chicago for appearances, such as in 1943 and again in 1946 for her recordings on the Miracle label. She recorded the torch song "Fool That I Am", in which she was accompanied by the Floyd Hunt Quartet with pianist Sonny Thompson and bassist Eddie Calhoun , with her composition "Harlem Breakdown" as the B-side. “Fool That I Am” reached # 3 on the Billboard “Race Records” juke box chart in the fall of 1947 .

Although Gladys Palmer had given the Miracle label a hit, her subsequent recordings were less successful. In later years her recordings were not re-released after the Miracle label ended and she fell into disuse.

Discographic notes

  • L'Histoire du jazz vocal. The Story of Vocal Jazz: Part 1 (1911–1940) ( Le Chant du Monde )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Pruter and Robert L. Campbell: Miracle Records ( Memento from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Gladys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1935
DATE OF DEATH after 1946