Jackie Washington (musician)

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Jackie Washington (born November 12, 1919 in Hamilton (Ontario) , † June 27, 2009 ibid) was a Canadian blues musician ( piano , vocals , guitar ).

Live and act

Washington came from a family of 15 children and began performing at the age of five, later as a member of the Washington Brothers , which included his siblings Ormsby, Harold and Doc, who sang Minstrel songs and were stylistically influenced by the singing of the Mills Brothers . Washington left the music business in the 1940s to work as a train conductor and, by the end of the decade, as a disc jockey. In the 1950s he sang in night clubs; He recorded his debut album Blues and Sentimental in 1976 on the small label Knight II. During this time he performed at Canadian folk and blues festivals. In the course of his career he has also worked with jazz greats such as Duke Ellington , Clark Terry and Lionel Hampton , the songwriters Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot and with the blues musicians Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee and Lonnie Johnson . In the 1990s he released a number of albums and was the subject of a biography ( More Than a Blues Singer: Jackie Washington Tells His Story , 1998). Washington continued to perform well into the early 2000s; In 2002 he was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame and recognized by the Ontario Arts Council for his life's work. In the field of jazz he was involved in 18 recording sessions between 1968 and 2002 and worked in the two feature films Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) and Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980).

Discographic notes

  • Where Old Friends Meet (Borealis, 1991), with Mose Scarlett and Ken Whiteley
  • Keeping Out of Mischief (1Pyramid, 995)
  • Midnight Choo Choo (1998)
  • We'll Meet Again (1999), with Scarlett and Whiteley
  • Sitting on a Rainbow (2003), with Scarlett and Whiteley

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2009/06/30/jackie_washington_89_hamilton_jazz_icon.html
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 28, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Washington, Jackie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian blues musician (piano, vocals, guitar)
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton (Ontario)
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2009
Place of death Hamilton (Ontario)