Kay Davis

Kay Davis ( born December 5, 1920 in Evanston, Illinois as Kathryn Elizabeth Davis; † 27 January 2012 in Apopka, Florida) was an American singer. She sang in the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Life and work

Davis studied from 1938 to 1945 voice and piano and was in 1944 a member of the band by Duke Ellington, who started alongside Joya Sherrill and Al Hibbler in his orchestra. Duke used her coloratura soprano often for scat arrangements, for example, together with the clarinet Jimmy Hamilton. He also used her voice in concert pieces and spirituals or the wordless obbligato, Adelaide Hall created for the title Creole Love Call.

With Ellington and Ray Nance visited England and France in 1948 and took part in the European tour of the orchestra part in the same year; The end of 1949 she dropped out of the Duke Ellington Orchestra from and was not musically active since.

You can hear Davis on the Duke Elligton titles I Is not Nothing But the Blues ( 1944), It Do not Mean a Thing, But It Is not that Swing and Solitude (1945 ), Transbluency and Minnehaha (1946 ), On a Turnquoise Cloud ( 1947) and Creole Love Call ( 1948). In contrast to her colleague Joya Sherrill, the (sometimes in trio with Marie Ellington ) worked together with her ​​in the band, Kay Davis was not a real jazz singer; it is to be regarded rather as a concert singer.

Auswahldiskographie

  • Duke Ellington: Carnegie Hall Concert, December 1944 ( Prestige )
  • Duke Ellington: Treasury Shows ( DETS, 1945)
  • Duke Ellington: 1946 ( Classics )
  • Duke Ellington :1947 - 1948 ( Classics )

Secondary literature

  • J. L. Collier: Duke Ellington. Berlin, Ullstein, 1998
  • Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001
  • Richard Cook & Brian Mortonn: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.

Comments

  • Pop singer
  • Singer
  • American musician
  • Born in 1920
  • Died in 2012
  • Woman
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