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Katherine Handy Lewis (born June 20, 1902 in Normal , Alabama , † July 15, 1982 in the Bronx , New York City ) was an American blues and jazz singer and pianist.

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Handy, daughter of the composer WC Handy , was the second of six children and spent her childhood in the southern United States. In 1919 her family came to New York and moved to 139th Street in Harlem . She sang on the radio in the 1920s and 1930s. Handy recorded two tracks as a singer and pianist for the Paramount label , on December 9, 1932, "Underneath the Harlem Moon", where she was accompanied by Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra. Despite the success - the song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel came in the US hit parade at # 19 - she initially did not record any further songs. Later in her professional career, she worked as a columnist for the Defender in Chicago and as a secretary for the music publisher Irving Mills . She married Homer D. Lewis and mostly looked after her family, but continued to work in her father's company, Handy Brothers Music Company , of which she was briefly managing director.

In 1944 she recorded six blues titles for the Folkways Records label under her married name Katherine Handy Lewis with the pianist James P. Johnson , including five by her father (such as the "Yellow Dog Blues") and in 1953, together with her father, the " St. Louis Blues ”. In the field of jazz she was involved in six recording sessions between 1922 and 1953. Her last public appearance was in March 1981 at a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall , when the historic concert of April 27, 1928, at which African-American musicians were allowed to perform there for the first time, was re-enacted.

Discographic notes

  • Katherine Handy Lewis: WC Handy Blues Sung by His Daughter in Traditional Style (1958)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The chart information and biographical information come from Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner Notes and Companion Book of the 100 CD Edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
  2. ↑ The soloists on the recording are u. a. JC Higginbotham , Rex Stewart and Coleman Hawkins .
  3. ↑ Katherine Handy at Allmusic (English)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Cell phone, Katherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Handy Lewis, Katherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Normal (Alabama)
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1982
Place of death New York City