Fats Waller

Fats Waller

male, deceased (1943)
Jive singer, Ain't Misbehavin', death by pneumonia, Vaudeville performer, Swing pianist, Thomas Wright Waller…VictorRecords
Fats Waller (born Thomas Wright Waller on May 21, 1904, died December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic...
Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman

male, deceased (1967)
Dixieland jazz musician, Vaudeville performer, Radio personality, Columbia Records, Victor Talking Machine Company, VictorRecords
Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 - December 29, 1967) was a popular white American orchestral leader. He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start...
Ralph Peer

Ralph Peer

male, deceased (1960)
American, talent scout, country music, gospel music, Carter family, African-American…Columbia Records, Okeh Records, VictorRecords
Ralph Peer (May 22 1892 - January 19 1960) was born Ralph Sylvester Peer in Independence, Missouri. He died in Hollywood, California. Peer was a...
Ted Weems

Ted Weems

male, deceased (1963)
Red Ingle, The Man from the South, Somebody Stole My Gal, Sailor, Peg o' My Heart, American…Mercury Records, Decca Records, VictorRecords
Wilfred Theodore (Ted) Weems (originally Wemyes) (26 September, 1901 - 6 May, 1963) was a United States bandleader and musician. Born in Pitcairn,...
Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell

male, deceased (1959)
blind, The White Stripes, Blind bluesmen, William Samuel McTell, de stijl, From Augusta, Georgia…VictorRecords
Blind Willie McTell (May 5 1908-August 15 1959), born William Samuel McTell, was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist....
Bennie Moten

Bennie Moten

male, deceased (1935)
boogie woogie, ragtime, riffing, Vernon Page, basie, tuba…VictorRecords
Bennie Moten was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City, Missouri. He led the Kansas City Orchestra, the most important...
Red Allen

Red Allen

male, deceased (1967)
Dixieland jazz musician, New Orleans jazz musician, American jazz trumpeter, King Oliver, mississippi river, jazz…VictorRecords
Henry "Red" Allen (January 7, 1906 or 1908 (see talk) - April 17, 1967) was a jazz trumpeter. Henry James Allen was born in the Algiers...
Isham Jones

Isham Jones

male, deceased (1956)
great depression, brunswick, from Ohio, Bandleader, violinist, saxophonist…victor, Brunswick Records, Decca Records, VictorRecords
Isham Jones (31 January, 1894 - 19 October, 1956) was a United States bandleader, violinist, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter. Jones was born in...
James Melton

James Melton

male, deceased (1961)
Nashville, Moultrie, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Tenor, town hall, Canadian…Columbia Records, VictorRecords
James Melton (January 2, 1904, in Moultrie, Georgia – April 21, 1961 in New York City, New York) was an operatic tenor whose singing talent was si...
Connee Boswell

Connee Boswell

deceased (1976)
from Louisiana, Vaudeville performer, singer, pop singer, from Missouri, American…Brunswick Records, Decca Records, Okeh Records, VictorRecords
Constance Boswell (December 3, 1907 - October 11, 1976) was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City, Missouri but raised in New Orleans,...