Ernestine Anderson

Ernestine Irene Anderson ( born November 11, 1928 in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz and blues singer.

Life and work

Anderson was already a teenager on the stage; Early 1940, she sang once a week in Russell Jacquet's big band. 1944 her family moved to Seattle. There she sang soon in Blackwell's Junior Band - in the same time also played Quincy Jones.

1947-1949 Anderson left Seattle and toured with the band of rhythm and blues pioneer Johnny Otis. Also in 1947 she took in Los Angeles with Shifty Henry 's Orchestra their first album (Good Lovin ' Babe / KC Lover, Black & White Records ). Anderson married and moved to the birth of her first child in 1949 to Seattle.

1952/53, she returned to the music business, found a job at the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, with whom she went to New York. In 1955 she sang two tracks on the Gigi Gryce - plate Nica 's Tempo ( Savoy Records). Whereupon she was invited in 1956 by Rolf Ericson to a Scandinavian tour. In 1957 she took with the big band of Harry Arnold for her first LP. The disc was released in the United States in 1958 by Mercury Records under the title Hot Cargo. Hot Cargo brought her great success: In 1958, she sang at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1959, she was the Downbeat magazine's "Best New Vocal Star " is selected.

In the 1960s, the musical tastes changed to the disadvantage of jazz. Mid-60s, she moved to London for two years, then returned to the American West Coast. When she 1975 the jazz bassist Ray Brown met again, this became their manager and got her an appearance at the Concord Jazz Festival in 1976, which led to the conclusion of the contract at Concord Records. It was followed by appearances in Japan and Europe - they met several times at the Monterey Jazz Festival ( most recently in 2003 with Lafayette Harris) and 1988 at Carnegie Hall. Anderson remained until 1993 in Concord, where she published nearly twenty plates, even with the Clayton - Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. In 1993 she was signed to Quincy Jones ' label Qwest Records, where she remained until the end of the 90s.

Discography (selection)

  • Hot Cargo ( Mercury Records, 1958)
  • My Kinda Swing ( Mercury Records, 1960)
  • Hello Like Before ( Concord Records, 1976)
  • Never Make Your Move Too Soon ( Concord, 1981)
  • Big City ( Concord, 1983)
  • When The Sun Goes Down ( Concord, 1985)
  • Now and Then ( Qwest Records, 1993)
  • Blues, News & Love News ( Qwest Records, 1996)
  • Nightlife ( High Note, 2011) with Houston Person
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