Ida Cox

Ida Cox ( born February 25, 1896 in Toccoa, Georgia as Ida Prather, † November 10, 1967 in Knoxville, Tennessee) was an American blues and jazz singer.

Cox began as an actress and singer in minstrel shows, then moved on to vaudeville and was at the beginning of the 1920s, the star of the Theatre Owners Booking Association. She made macabre titles with catchy name ( "Monkey Man Blues ", " Death Letter Blues", "Graveyard Bound Blues" ) is known, but also claimed " Wild Woman Do not Have The Blues". Between 1923 and 1929, Cox took regularly for Paramount (including with Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders and the band of Fletcher Henderson ). From 1927 she was accompanied by Jesse Crump, whom she later married.

In 1939, she brought John Hammond to New York to perform at Cafe Society to do radio shows and making records with Hot Lips Page. The highlight of this marketing strategy was her appearance in Hammond's epoch-making Spirituals To Swing concert on 24 December 1939. Subsequently, she was with two successful shows ( "Raising Cain ," " Darktown Scandals " ) on tour until 1944 suffered a stroke. That's her, not noted on their last, recorded in 1961 record with the quintet of Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge and Milt Hinton said belonged. Cox also took up with Charlie Christian, Lionel Hampton, JC Higginbotham, Jelly Roll Morton, Elmer Chambers and Tommy Ladnier.