Monette Moore
Monette Moore ( born May 19, 1902 in Gainesville, Texas, † October 21, 1962 in Garden Grove, California ) was an American singer and pianist of the early jazz and blues, as well as an actress.
Life and work
Moore began her career as an accompanist for silent films in Kansas City; then she toured as a pianist and vocalist with a vaudeville troupe. In the early 1920s they came to New York and performed in musical theater; in 1923 made his first recordings. During this time she also worked in cities such as Chicago, Dallas and Oklahoma City. Many of their early records were published under the pseudonym Susie Smith. In 1925 she was a member of the musical revue Lucky Sambo, sang in Charlie Johnson Orchestra, which occurred in Small's Paradise and Connie's Inn and recorded some songs on this band, such as " You Is not the One" and "Do not You Leave Me here ". 1927/28, she toured with Walter Pages Blue Devils in the Midwest. In 1929 she returned to New York and came back to the late 1930s in music theaters and night clubs, sometimes with Sidney Bechet and Sammy Price, 1937 in Chicago with Zinky Cohn. In 1942, she moved to Los Angeles; there they had engagements in clubs, took Teddy Bunn and the Harmony Girls, went on in James P. Johnson's Sugar Hill Show and played small roles in a number of Hollywood films, as in Yes Sir, Mr. Bones ( 1951). From 1951 to 1953 she appeared in the television series Amos ' n Andy, and took up with George Lewis. 1960 began an engagement at Disneyland with the formation Young Men of Dixieland, including with gas- tier musicians such as Louis Armstrong; she also appeared in the Disney television program The Wonderful World of Color and Disneyland After Dark.
From Moore 44 images were published under his own name on records. This focus on the years 1923 to 1927, when it started in New York for the label Ajax, Paramount, Vocalion, Columbia and Victor; contributing musicians were, inter alia, Jimmy Blythe, Tommy Ladnier, Jimmy O'Bryant, Bubber Miley, Elmer Snowden and Rex Stewart. next she took on two duets in 1932 with Fats Waller; 1936 and from 1945 to 1947 created further recordings.