Teddi King

Teddi King ( born September 18, 1929 as Theodora King in Revere, Massachusetts, † November 18, 1977 ) was an American jazz and pop singer.

Life and work

King began her musical career in the late 1940s at the end of the big band era with local bands like Ray Dorey and Nat Pierce. George Shearing recognized her potential and took them for a few years on tour with her ​​was even more years together and made ​​her recordings. George Wein became their manager and King made ​​a number of albums for the record label " Storyville " on before she completed a contract with the major label RCA Victor. Their first album on the label was Bidin 'my time. With the title Mr. Wonderful had a 1956 chart hit. Your contract with RCA ended in 1958; then an album was on the " Coral " label, in which inter alia was accompanied by Jimmy Cleveland and Charlie Shavers. It was praised by the critics album All The Kings' songs in which they interpreted the songs of contemporary singers such as Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole ( the "Kings", alluding to the title of the album ). In 1960 she was accompanied by Al Cohn's band on the album Bidin 'my time. However, They tried to market them as a pop singer, and she decided not to work for major record companies.

From 1962 she sang exclusively for the Playboy Club in New York; to 1970 were no LP recordings, and there were no other live TV or radio appearances. After the expiration of their contract with Playboy she fell ill; she suffered from then lupus, impairment of their autoimmune system. Nevertheless, they had an album with Dave McKenna 1977 a short comeback, two more albums published posthumously. As an enthusiastic fan who was ill with meningitis, however, they kissed at the end of a concert in North Carolina, she died two days later.

She sang in a swinging style, much like the singers Lee Wiley, Helen Ward, Maxine Sullivan, Mildred Bailey and Mabel Mercer. Teddi King stood in her career, not so much in the spotlight as their contemporaries and fellow Carmen McRae Anita O'Day or, but she enjoyed great reputation among their fellow musicians and was considered a "singer 's singer".

Auswahldiskographie

  • Storyville Presents Teddi King (1954, Storyville )
  • Now in Vogue (1955, Storyville )
  • Bidin ' My Time (1956, RCA)
  • A Girl and Her Songs (1957, RCA)
  • To You From Teddi King (1957, RCA)
  • All the King 's Songs (1959, Coral / M & M)
  • Teddi King with Al Cohn and his Orchestra: Bidin ' My Time (RCA / Fresh Sound Records, 1960) with Hal McKusick, Gene Quill, Hank Jones, Freddie Green, Osie Johnson
  • This is New (1977, Inner City )
  • Lovers and Losers (1978, Audiophile )
  • Someone to Light Up Your Life (1979, Audiophile )
  • In the Beginning, 1949-1954 ( compilation, 2000, Baldwin Street Music)
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