June Richmond

June Richmond ( born July 9, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois; † August 14, 1962 in Gothenburg, Sweden) was an American jazz singer and actress.

June Richmond is considered the first African-American jazz singer who sang regularly in a " white" ribbon when she appeared in 1938 with Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. She previously worked with Les Hite in California; after their time at Dorsey they occurred in Cab Calloway (1938 ) and then worked from 1939 to 1942 in Andy Kirk's orchestra. After she left Kirk, she launched a successful career as a soloist; in 1948 she appeared mostly in Europe. They first settled in France, where she sang worked with Henri Renaud, and later in Scandinavia.

Your only recordings under his own name originated in 1951 when she recorded four titles in Stockholm with Svend Asmussen; 1957 originated in Paris four more numbers with the orchestra of Quincy Jones, "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues", "Sleep ", " Everybody's Doing It " and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea ". In addition, she appeared in the 1940s and 1950s in some music and movies, so in 1957 on the side of Peter Alexander, Bibi Johns and Rudolf plate in the Erik Ode Music Comedy Romance, jazz and arrogance. June Richmond died at the age of 47 of a heart attack.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Cab Calloway: 1938-1939 ( Classics )
• Andy Kirk: 1939-1940, 1943-1949 ( Classics )
• Jazz in Paris - Harold Nicholas - June Richmond - Andy Bey ( Emarcy )

Swell

• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
• Will Friedwald: Swinging Voices of America - A compendium of great voices. Hannibal, St. Andrew - Woerdern, 1992. ISBN 3-85445-075-3