New Orleans Willie Jackson (1896 or 1897 - after 1930)
was an American blues and jazz singer, active in
,
Louisiana
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and
New York City
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in the 1920s.
He sang
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
,
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
, and comic numbers.
He frequently performed with pianist
Steve Lewis at
Spanish Fort, New Orleans
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Prehistory
Archaeolog ...
and they recorded some
phonograph records
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. These were made for
Columbia Records
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between 1926 and 1928. He also sang vocals in
King Oliver
Joseph Nathan "King" Oliver (December 19, 1881 – April 8/10, 1938) was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly recognized for his playing style and his pioneering use of Mute (music), mutes in jazz. Also a notable c ...
's band the Dixie Syncopators.
Two of his songs, "
How Long" and "She Keeps it Up All the Time," are featured on several New Orleans blues and jazz anthologies. He made the first recording of the track "T.B. Blues", which later became more associated with
Victoria Spivey
Victoria Regina Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976), sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer and songwriter. During a recording career that spanned 40 years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis A ...
.
References
External links
New Orleans Willie Jackson @ Discogs.com
Jazz musicians from New Orleans
Blues musicians from New Orleans
Singers from Louisiana
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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