Lizzie Miles
Lizzie Miles (born March 31, 1895 in New Orleans ; † March 17, 1963 there ; also written Lizzy Miles ; real name Elizabeth Mary Landreaux ) was an American singer mainly of blues and jazz .
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans to a French-speaking Creole family. Her father JCMiles ran a "Colored Show" at the Cole Brothers Circus, where she performed as a teenager, as well as in minstrel shows. In New Orleans she performed with King Oliver , Kid Ory and Armand Piron . In 1919 she sang with George Thomas, moved to Chicago in the early 1920s , where she performed with "Elgars Creole Orchestra", Freddie Keppard and King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. In 1922 she moved to New York City , where she performed in clubs with the Sam Wooding Orchestra and Piron's New Orleans Orchestra and made her first recordings in 1922. From 1924 she was in Europe and performed for a while in Paris in the club of Louis Mitchell ("Chez Mitchell"). In 1927 she was back in New York. After a serious illness she played in the 1930s a. a. with Fats Waller and Paul Barbarin . In the late 1930s she went back to New Orleans. When performing, however, she avoided the stage and sang from the side or in front of the stage, as, in her own words, she had promised this in a prayer as thanks for her recovery. In the early 1950s she went to San Francisco before returning to New Orleans, where she performed and recorded more regularly with Dixieland bands such as Bob Scobey and George Lewis . She was regularly on the radio and in 1957 on the television show "Crescendo" to hear. In 1958 she made a guest appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival . From 1959 she gave up singing with the exception of gospel music and began to study theology. She died of a heart attack in 1963.
She can also be heard on recordings with King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Clarence Williams . Along with Morton and Williams, her piano accompanists also included Joe Robichaux , Clarence Johnson and Cliff Jackson .
Her half-sister Edna Hicks was also a blues singer and her half-brother Herb Morand was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter . She used the pseudonyms Mandy Smith and Jane Howard on some of her recordings.
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Web links
- Lizzie Miles at Redhotjazz
- Lizzie Miles at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miles, Lizzie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miles, Lizzy; Landreaux, Elizabeth Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1963 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |