Lizzie Miles
Lizzie Miles ( born March 31, 1895 in New Orleans, † March 17, 1963 ibid, also written Lizzy Miles, real name Elizabeth Mary Landreaux ) was an American singer, mainly of blues and jazz.
Miles was born in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans in a French-speaking Creole family. Her father JCMiles conducted a "Colored Show" in the circus Cole Brothers, where they have occurred as a teenager, as well as in minstrel shows. In New Orleans, she performed with King Oliver, Kid Ory and Armand Piron. In 1919, she sang to George Thomas, moved to Chicago in the early 1920s, where she performed Oliver 's Creole Jazz Band with " Elgar's Creole Orchestra", Freddie King and Keppard. In 1922 she moved to New York City, where she worked with the Sam Wooding Orchestra and Piron New Orleans Orchestra appeared in clubs and in 1922 made their first recordings. From 1924 she was joined in Europe and for a while in Paris Club by Louis Mitchell ( "Chez Mitchell " ) on. In 1927 she was back in New York. After a serious illness, she starred in the 1930s, among other things, with Fats Waller and Paul Barbarin. In the late 1930s she went back to New Orleans. But with appearances, she shunned the stage and sang from the side or front of the stage, because she had the promised his own words in a prayer of gratitude for her recovery. In the early 1950s she moved to San Francisco, before she returned to New Orleans and regularly appeared there with Dixieland bands like those of Bob Scobey and George Lewis and also recorded. She was a regular on the radio and listen to 1957 in the TV show " Crescendo ". In 1958 she made guest appearances at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1959 she gave up singing with the exception of gospel music and began studying theology. She died in 1963 of a heart attack.
They can also be heard on recordings with King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Clarence Williams. Her accompanists included not only Morton and Williams Joe Robichaux, Clarence Johnson and Cliff Jackson.
Her half sister Edna Hicks was also blues singer and her half-brother Herb Morand trumpeter of New Orleans jazz. For some of their recordings they used the pseudonyms Mandy Smith and Jane Howard.