Ivie Anderson
Iva "Ivie" Anderson (born July 10, 1905 in Gilroy , California as Iva Smith , † December 27, 1949 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz singer .
Live and act
As a child, she received vocal training at a convent school and later studied singing in Washington, DC for two years . It was discovered in 1922; then Anderson appeared in various Californian nightclubs, including vaudeville shows, and went on tour with them. a. with Mamie Smith . Until 1930 she toured with various bands through the USA and Australia, made guest appearances in the Cotton Clubs of New York and Los Angeles as well as in the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, where she was the first black singer to perform with a white band, the orchestra of Anson Weeks , performed;
Until February 1931 she worked with the pianist Earl Hines , who had an engagement in the show at the Grand Terace Cafe in Chicago. On his advice she was hired by Duke Ellington ; The first recordings with the band were made a year later. Ivie Anderson stayed in his band from 1931 to 1942 and was there on his visits to Europe in 1933 and 1939. She was the interpreter of well-known Ellington pieces such as In a Mellowtone and It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (1932), Troubled Waters (1934), Kissin 'My Baby Goodnight (1936) and Rocks In My Bed and I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (1941). She sang Stormy Weather both on the European tour at the London Palladium and in a film that made the piece a jazz standard . With All God's Chillun Got Rhythm she released her first record under her own name. In 1937 she took part in the Marx Brothers film A Day At The Races . In November, the band had a hit with Anderson in the new "Harlem Hit Parade" (the forerunner of the R&B charts) with "Hayfoot, Strawfoot". She had her last important appearance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in Los Angeles in the musical Jump for Joy .
After separating from Ellington (she gave up her career because of asthma ), Ivie Anderson opened the Chicken Shack restaurant in Los Angeles , only performed sporadically in California and Mexico City and over time developed into a singer with no particular jazz character. In 1946 there were still recordings for Black & White Records with an orchestra under the direction of Wilbert Barranco ("I Thought You Ought to Know").
Ellington later said of her: "Ivie is still talked about, and all the singers we've had since then had to break away from Ivie Anderson's image first."
Anderson suffered from asthma for years and eventually died in Los Angeles in 1949.
Discographic notes
- Duke Ellington presents Ivie Anderson ( Columbia 1973) - 2 LPs with Arthur Whetsol , Cootie Williams , Freddie Jenkins , Tricky Sam Nanton , Lawrence Brown , Johnny Hodges , Harry Carney , Barney Bigard , Fred Guy , Wellman Braud , Sonny Greer , Juan Tizol , Otto Hardwick , Joe Garland , Rex Stewart , Ben Webster , Billy Taylor , Hayes Alvis , Pete Clark as, Wallace Jones , Harold Baker tp, Billy Strayhorn , Jimmy Blanton
Other well-known titles
- Love is like a cigarette
- When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
- Oh babe, maybe someday
- The Chocolate Shake
- Stormy Weather
literature
- Will Friedwald: Swinging Voices of America - A Compendium of Great Voices . Hannibal, St. Andrä-Wölker 1992. ISBN 3-85445-075-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Billboard November 21, 1942, p. 24
- ↑ Quoted from Will Friedwald: Swinging Voices of America - A compendium of great voices . Hannibal, St. Andrä-WIERT 1992. ISBN 3-85445-075-3 , p. 80.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anderson, Ivie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderson, Iva; Smith, Iva (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gilroy , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | around December 27, 1949 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |