Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Louise Hall ( born October 20, 1901 in New York; † November 7, 1993 in London) was an American jazz singer.

In 1927 she sang in Eubie Blake's Shuffle Along famous show and in the revue Blackbirds. In the same year Hall singer with Duke Ellington. She took the most famous version of Ellington's " Creole Love Call " on with sensitive vocalization of the response parts of this call-and -response melody. In 1932 she sang with Art Tatum as a companion and later joined also in Europe. In 1938 she married and settled in Britain, where she managed a nightclub. At the age of 82 years, she gave a performance of her hit track " Creole Love Call", accompanied by the Barrelhouse Jazz Band again. Three years later, she worked with companion Mick Pyne in the UK.