Herb Jeffries

Herb Jeffries, Singer

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
May 28, 2014

After Herb Jeffries died on Sunday in jny: Los Angeles, headlines around the world remembered him for his career as a singing cowboy in a succession of low budget 1930s Hollywood movies. Appreciative listeners are more likely to recall Jeffries as the singer who worked with the Earl Hines Orchestra, then joined Duke Ellington when the classic Blanton-Webster edition of the band was taking shape. With Ellington, he recorded “Flamingo.” The record, with its remarkable Billy Strayhorn arrangement and a ...
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