Jerry Kruger

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Jerry Kruger , also Jerry Krueger (born before 1930) is a singer of the swing era .

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Kruger's career as a singer is centered on the late 1930s. During her recordings for Variety and Vocalion she was accompanied by jazz musicians such as Buster Bailey and Frankie Newton ( Jerry Kruger & Her Knights of Rhythm 1937) and under the direction of Cootie Williams with musicians from the Duke Ellington Orchestra . With Williams she recorded for Vocalion a. a. the jazz standards Ol 'Man River and I Can't Give You Anything but Love ). In May 1938 she was a band singer with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra , with whom she a. a. recorded the folk song adaptation Fare Thee Well, Annie Laurie . In April 1939 she played under her own name a. a. the standard summertime ; Contributing musicians were Benny Carter (tp / arr), Ernie Powell (ts), Eddie Heywood (p), Hayes Alvis (b) and Chick Morrison (dr). In the field of jazz, she was involved in five recording sessions between 1936 and 1939.

In the 1940s, Kruger also worked as a songwriter; she wrote the lyrics to the Ted Grouya song I Heard You Cried Last Night (1943), which was presented by Jack Payne & His Orchestra and Dick Haymes and u. a. also played by Harry James , Alvino Rey , Les Brown , Bob Crosby , Glenn Miller , Sonny Dunham , later also by Charlie Mariano , Bud Shank and Vic Juris . In 1939 she was also involved in the copyright dispute over the lyrics to the Andrew Sisters hit Hold Tight , for the last lines of which she claimed royalties.

Gunther Schuller sees Jerry Kruger stylistically somewhere between Billie Holiday and Anita O'Day ; she was the first white singer to emulate Holidays's low-vibrato and economical singing style, without, however, building on their success. Will Friedwald describes her as " one of the more fascinating footnotes on the swing era " and a master of the " Jive Doubletalk ", a style that was later used by vocal groups such as the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra ( My Blue Heaven ), Joe Mooney ( Tea for Two ), The Sentimentalists (with Tommy Dorsey , On the Sunny Side of the Street ) and the Nat King Cole Trio.

Discographic notes

  • Duke Ellington Orchestra: The Complete 1936–1940 Variety, Vocalion and Okeh Small Group Sessions ( Mosaic Records , ed. 2006)
  • The 30's Girls 1932-1940 ( Timeless Records )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music , edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, p. 55
  2. ↑ Jerry Kruger & Her Knights of Rhythm, September 17, 1937 Jerry Kruger (voc), Frankie Newton, (tp), Buster Bailey (cl), Pete Brown (as), Don Frye (p, arr), Jimmy McLin (git ), John Kirby (b), O'Neill Spencer (dr)
  3. ↑ Cootie Williams and His Rug Cutters: Cootie Williams (tp), Juan Tizol (tb), Barney Bigard (cl), Otto Hardwick (as), Harry Carney (bar), Duke Ellington (p), Billy Taylor (b), Sonny Greer (d)
  4. ↑ Will Friedwald in his book Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs that Jazzforschung long time was believed Kruger was in their version of the Gershwin -songs of Lester Young and Buck Clayton was accompanied by Dan Morgenstern the Error cleared up.
  5. ↑ a b Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 28, 2014)
  6. ^ William Emmett Studwell: They also wrote: Evaluative essays on lesser-known popular American songwriters prior to the rock era , 2000
  7. ↑ The composition is by Clarence Williams (1924), cf. Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll , 2013, p. 163
  8. ^ Gunther Schuller: The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945
  9. ↑ Ean Wood: Born to Swing , 1996, 159
  10. ↑ Will Friedwald: Stardust Melodies: The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs , 2009, p. 318
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krueger, Jerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1930