Sarah Vaughan - the Swing Era

Starring: Ida Cox, Lena Horne Dvd Release: 3rd March, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: NTSC, Region 2 Encoding

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Ida Cox was a popular African American singer, best known for her Blues performances & recordings. Cox was born as Ida Prather in Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia & grew up in Cedartown, Georgia. She toured with traveling minstrel shows, often appearing in blackface in to the 1910s ; she married fellow minstrel performer Adler Cox. From 1923 through 1929 Cox made numerous recordings for Paramount Records. In 1939 she returned to the recording studio for Vocalion Records. In the 1940s she recorded for Okeh & Columbia, worked with Coleman Hawkins in the 1950s & made her last recordings for Riverside in the early 1960s. Ida Cox died in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Lena Calhoun Horne is an American popular singer. While she has recorded & performed extensively with jazz musicians, she is usually not considered a jazz singer because she does not improvise. She was the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio & became famous in 1943 for her rendition of Stormy Weather in the movie of the same name. She later appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky, but was never featured in a leading role due to her race & the fact that films featuring her had to be reedited for showing in southern states where theatres could not show films with African-American performers. She was originally considered for the lead role in the 1951 version of Show Boat but Ava Gardner was given the role instead. Disenchanted with Hollywood by the mid-1950s & increasingly focused on her nightclub career, she only made two major appearences in MGM films during the decade, 1950 s Duchess of Idaho & the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. Posters Of Lena Horne

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