Jane Harvey

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Jane Harvey (actually Phyllis Taff , born January 6, 1925 in Jersey City , New Jersey , † August 15, 2013 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American jazz singer .

Career

Harvey began her career shortly after finishing high school in the 1940s with appearances at the New York Club Café Society in Greenwich Village , where she took the stage name Jane Harvey . Bandleader Benny Goodman hired the singer for concerts and joint recordings. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me was written for Columbia Records in December 1944 , followed by the tracks Up in Central Park, Only Another Boy and Girl and He's Funny That Way. With Close as Pages in a Book , Goodman and Harvey made it to # 11 on the US charts. In 1946 she became a band vocalist in the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, with whom she recorded for RCA Victor ( Mi Vida and A Rainy Night in Rio ) and had a successful engagement in the Ciro’s nightclub . When the band went on tour, they decided to stay in the club.

She appeared in Europe in 1948 in the USO troop support with Bob Hope and Irving Berlin . On her return to the United States, she appeared on Broadway in 1950 in the Harold Rome musical Bless You All with Pearl Bailey . She then married the music producer Bob Thiele and temporarily withdrew from the music scene in order to raise their son. In 1958 she sang two tracks with the Duke Ellington Orchestra . In the course of her further career, Harvey recorded several LPs such as Leave It to Jane, I've Been There , the Fats Waller tribute album You Fats, Me Jane as well as Jane Harvey and The Other Side of Sondheim . In 2011 she ended her stage career with a performance at the Feinstein’s nightclub in New York and at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood and presented a previously unpublished session with Les Paul . Jane Harvey died of cancer in her Los Angeles home in August 2013, aged 88.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.playbill.com
  2. ^ Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
  3. ^ Obituary in Saarbrücker Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taff, Phyllis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2013
Place of death los Angeles