Jane Harvey

Jane Harvey (actually Phyllis Taff, born January 6, 1925 in Jersey City, New Jersey; † August 15, 2013 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American jazz singer.

Career

Harvey began her career shortly after finishing high school in the 1940s with appearances in the New York club Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, where she adopted the stage name Jane Harvey. Bandleader Benny Goodman hired the singer for concerts and joint recordings. In December 1944, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me for Columbia Records was created, then the title Up in Central Park, Only Another Boy and Girl and He 's Funny That Way. With Close as Pages in a Book managed Goodman and Harvey at # 11 on the U.S. charts. In 1946 she was Bandvokalistin Desi Arnaz Orchestra, with whom she recorded for RCA Victor ( Mi Vida and A Rainy Night in Rio) and a successful engagement at the nightclub Ciro's had. When the band went on tour, she decided to stay at the club.

She joined in 1948 in Europe with the support of the USO troops with Bob Hope and Irving Berlin. Upon her return to the United States she joined on Broadway in 1950 in the Harold Rome musical Bless You All, along with Pearl Bailey. Then you married the music producer Bob Thiele and withdrew temporarily from the music scene back to draw their son. In 1958, she sang two songs with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. In the course of their further career Harvey took several LPs as Leave It to Jane, I've Been There, the Fats Waller tribute album Fats You, Me Jane and Jane Harvey and The Other Side of Sondheim. In 2011 she ended her stage career with an appearance in the New York nightclub Feinstein 's and the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, and even presented a previously unreleased session with Les Paul. Jane Harvey died in August 2013 at the age of 88 years at her home in Los Angeles from cancer.