Louis Jordan was a pioneering musician of the big band era who found crossover appeal in the early stages of the emerging rock and roll era while using pop, jazz, and R&B as his baseline. The Arkansas native’s 100th birthday was this past Sunday. Nicknamed the “King of the Jukebox,” Jordan, whose main instrument […]
Flora Batson was a celebrated popular music and opera vocalist born on this day with a range so extreme, she was dubbed the “Double-Voice Queen of Song” and drew comparison with Swedish Opera star Jenny Lind. Batson was born April 16, 1864 in Washington, D.C. but was raised primarily in Providence, Rhode Island. She started […]
Valaida Snow was a prodigious musician who became so adept at playing the trumpet that Louis Armstrong called her the second-best trumpet player in the world. Snow found fame in the late ’20’s and 1930s in America and across Europe before her death in the ’50’s. Snow was born June 2, 1904 in Chattanooga, […]
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