Marian Montgomery
Marian Montgomery (born November 17, 1934 in Natchez , Mississippi as Marian Maud Runnells , † July 22, 2002 in Bray (Berkshire) ) was an American jazz singer who lived mainly in Great Britain. She made the local television audience known as Marion Montgomery with numerous jazz standards .
Live and act
Montgomery started her career as a schoolgirl in Atlanta , where it came to her first television and club appearances; she then sang in Chicago , where she received a recording contract through Peggy Lee's mediation and first appeared as Marian Montgomery. In 1965 she worked in England with John Dankworth . After marrying the British pianist Laurie Holloway , she moved to England, where she worked for television and performed regularly on Michael Parkinson 's show and interpreted jazz songs in the 1970s . She also worked with Richard Rodney Bennett in concerts and albums. Her version of "Maybe the Morning" was the theme song for the English broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg .
Digby Fairweather emphasized in Jazz Rough Guide that she not only had the blues in her blood, which she "sings with a smoky voice in a fascinatingly cool way" and that she had an enormous stage presence.
Discography
- Marian Swings for Winners and Losers , Capitol (1962)
- Let there be Marian Montgomery , Capitol (1963)
- Lovin 'is Livin' , Capitol (1965)
- What's new? , Decca 74773
- Marian in the Morning , Polydor 2383159 (1972)
- Surprise Surprise (with Richard Rodney Bennett), Cube HIFLY 24 (1977)
- Town and Country (with Richard Rodney Bennett), Cube HIFLY 28 (1978)
- On Stage , Cube HIFLY 29 (1982)
- Puttin 'on the Ritz (with Richard Rodney Bennett), Cube HIFLY 40, (1984)
- I Gotta Right to Sing (live at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club ), Jazz House Records, 003 1988 (1988)
- Sometimes in the Night , See for Miles (1989)
- Mellow , See for Miles (1994)
- A Night at Ronnie's (recorded live), Ronnie Scott's Jazz House
- Nice and Easy (live), Ronnie Scott's Jazz, (1989)
- For the Love of Mercer Vol 1, Elgin (1997)
- For the Love of Mercer Vol 2, Elgin (1997)
- Makin 'Whoopie (with Mart Rodger Manchester Jazz), Bowstone Records (1993)
- Ballads and Blues , Elgin (1999)
- That Lady from Natchez , Audiophile (1999)
- Skylark , UCJ (2004)
Lexical entries
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
- obituary
- BBC obituary
- Marian Montgomery at Allmusic (English)
- Marion Montgomery at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montgomery, Marian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Runnells, Marian Maud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Natchez |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 2002 |
| Place of death | Bray (Berkshire) |