Lovie Austin
One of the first important female bandleaders in jazz, Lovie Austin deserves to be much better known. After studying music in college, she toured on the vaudeville circuit, settling in Chicago in 1923. During 1924-1926, she recorded frequently with her Blues Serenaders, a group that at various times had Tommy Ladnier, Bob Shoffner, Natty Dominique, or Shirley Clay on cornet; Kid Ory or Albert Wynn on trombone; and Jimmy O'Bryant or Johnny Dodds on clarinet, along with banjo and occasional drums. Fortunately, a Classics CD has collected all of those recordings. Austin (as house pianist for Paramount) also backed many blues singers (including Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter). But after 1926, her recording activity largely came to a halt. Austin worked for 20 years as the musical director for the Monogram Theatre and later on as a pianist at a dancing school, only returning to record in 1961 as part of Riverside's Living Legends series. Although mostly an ensemble pianist, Lovie Austin was a skilled arranger.
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Diskografie
8 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Complete Jazz Series 1924 - 1926
Jazz - Erschienen bei Complete Jazz Series am 15.10.2008
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Black Chicago Jazz
Jazz - Erschienen bei Documents am 01.09.2009
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Mother Of The Blues, CD A
Ma Rainey, Tommy Ladnier, Lovie Austin
Blues - Erschienen bei jsp am 01.06.1965
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Lovie Austin Selected Favorites
Jazz - Erschienen bei Charly Records am 21.03.2011
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Lovie Austin's Skeeg-A-Lee Blues
Jazz - Erschienen bei Charly Records am 25.06.2006
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Lovie Austin Selected Favorites
Jazz - Erschienen bei Charly Records am 21.03.2011
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1924-1926 (HD Remastered)
Jazzgesang - Erschienen bei Reborn recordings am 15.04.2019
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Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 4
Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey, Lovie Austin, Lovie Austin Blues Serenaders
Blues - Erschienen bei Intense Media GmbH am 18.03.2018
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