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The most famous jazz versions were recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936 and 1947. [91] Fletcher Henderson played it in 1934 in the Harlem Opera House as the "national anthem of Harlem". [92] "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" [46] [93] is a song from the Broadway show The New Moon, composed by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Doris Day (1922–2019) Blossom Dearie (1928–2009) Lea DeLaria (born 1958) Elaine Delmar (born 1939) Tony DeSare (born 1976) Johnny Desmond (1919–1985) Neil Diamond (born 1941) Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) Kate Dimbleby (born 1973) Sacha Distel (1933-2004) Denise Donatelli (born 1950) Larisa Dolina (born 1955) Dorothy Donegan (1922–1998 ...
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
“One can plausibly argue that the debate over jazz was just one of many that characterized American social discourse in the 1920s” (Ogren 3). In 1919, jazz was being described to white people as “a music originating about the turn of the twentieth century in New Orleans that featured wind instruments exploiting new timbres and performance techniques and improvisation” (Murchison 97).
Jazz artists like Louis Armstrong originally received very little airtime because most stations preferred to play the music of white American jazz singers. Other jazz vocalists include Bessie Smith and Florence Mills. In urban areas, such as Chicago and New York, African-American jazz was played on the radio more often than in the suburbs.
Theodore Leopold Friedman (June 6, 1890 – August 25, 1971), known as Ted Lewis, was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician.He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II.
The 1920s saw the emergence of many famous women musicians including African-American blues singer Bessie Smith (1894–1937), who inspired singers from later eras, including Billie Holiday (1915–1959) and Janis Joplin (1943–1970). [3] In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were ...
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith (August 14, 1894 – February 1, 1984), better known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the famous nightclub "Chez Bricktop" in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome.