Ernestine Anderson

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It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
I Love Being Here With You 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
See See Rider 00:00 Tools
My Kinda Love 00:00 Tools
Someone Else Is Steppin' In 04:48 Tools
Never Make Your Move Too Soon 00:00 Tools
Keep an Eye On Love 00:00 Tools
You're Not the Guy for Me 00:00 Tools
They Didn't Believe Me 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
In A Mellow Tone 00:00 Tools
Land Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
As Long As I Live 00:00 Tools
I'm Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
Moonlight In Vermont 00:00 Tools
Goin' to Chicago Blues 00:00 Tools
What A Diff'rence a Day Made 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale 00:00 Tools
All My Life 00:00 Tools
Trouble Is A Man 00:00 Tools
Harlem Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Welcome To The Club 00:00 Tools
Heat Wave 00:00 Tools
Mad About The Boy 00:00 Tools
You Go To My Head 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be The Same 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
That Old Feeling 00:00 Tools
Lazy Afternoon 00:00 Tools
Someday My Prince Will Come 00:00 Tools
My Shining Hour 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Wild 00:00 Tools
Sunny 00:00 Tools
Black Moonlight 00:00 Tools
Alone On My Own 00:00 Tools
There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York 00:00 Tools
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 00:00 Tools
Just One More Chance 00:00 Tools
What a Difference a Day Makes 00:00 Tools
The Song Is Ended 00:00 Tools
You Were Always On My Mind - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Mound Bayou 00:00 Tools
Autumn In New York 00:00 Tools
I'm Just A Lucky So And So 00:00 Tools
Show Me (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Old Folks 00:00 Tools
All Blues (Live Version) 07:34 Tools
Reach Out (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Down Home Blues 06:04 Tools
Sister Moon (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Only Trust Your Heart (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Touch Me (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
How Can I Sing A Love Song (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Bird Of Beauty 00:00 Tools
Simply Love (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
My Ship 00:00 Tools
This Can't Be Love 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Be In Love (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
All I Need Is You 00:00 Tools
Social Call 00:00 Tools
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Day by Day 00:00 Tools
Azure-Te 00:00 Tools
Song Is Ended 00:00 Tools
Skylark 00:00 Tools
Day Dream 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Time After Time 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 00:00 Tools
In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down 00:00 Tools
All Blues - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Did I Remember? 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Please Send Me Someone to Love 00:00 Tools
All Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Am His Lady 00:00 Tools
Stompin' at the Savoy 00:00 Tools
all blues 00:00 Tools
A Sleepin' Bee 00:00 Tools
Some Other Time 00:00 Tools
Show Me - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Looking For A Boy 00:00 Tools
You Were Always On My Mind (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Supper Time 00:00 Tools
Experiment 00:00 Tools
Interlude 00:00 Tools
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 00:00 Tools
My man 00:00 Tools
Sack Full of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Sunday in New York 00:00 Tools
Did I Remember 00:00 Tools
Feeling Good 00:00 Tools
Our Love Is Here To Stay 00:00 Tools
Wait Till You See Him 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
A Song for You 00:00 Tools
Love Walked In 00:00 Tools
Make Someone Happy 00:00 Tools
Christopher Columbus 00:00 Tools
Boogie Down 00:00 Tools
I've Got The World On A String 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Only Trust Your Heart 00:00 Tools
On My Own 00:00 Tools
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Why Did I Choose You 00:00 Tools
Am I Blue 00:00 Tools
One Mint Julep 00:00 Tools
Hooray For Love 00:00 Tools
Street Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Out of My Continental Mind 00:00 Tools
God Bless The Child 00:00 Tools
A LOVELY WAY TO SPEND AN EVENING 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 00:00 Tools
Le Blues 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel So Young 00:00 Tools
Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You 00:00 Tools
My Romance 00:00 Tools
This Time the Dream's on Me 00:00 Tools
London by Night 00:00 Tools
That Sunday That Summer 00:00 Tools
They Don´t Believe Me 00:00 Tools
Days Of Wine And Roses 00:00 Tools
Why Did I Choose You? 00:00 Tools
All My Life (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Continental Mind 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Hello Like Before 00:00 Tools
Only Trust Your Heart - Live Version 00:00 Tools
They Donґt Believe Me 00:00 Tools
Don't Touch Me - Live Version 00:00 Tools
I Could Write a Book 00:00 Tools
Sister Moon - Live Version 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
I Should Care 00:00 Tools
In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down Low 00:00 Tools
Spring Is Here 00:00 Tools
Be Mine (Tonight) 00:00 Tools
Lend Me Your Life 00:00 Tools
How Can I Sing A Love Song - Live Version 00:00 Tools
CANDY 00:00 Tools
I'm Comin' Home Again 00:00 Tools
Little Bird 00:00 Tools
Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Love Makes the Changes 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody's Business 00:00 Tools
Take The "A" Train 00:00 Tools
Mercy Mercy Mercy 00:00 Tools
Stormy Monday 00:00 Tools
FOR ALL WE KNOW 00:00 Tools
In a Mellotone 00:00 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 00:00 Tools
Be Mine Tonight 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 00:00 Tools
Keepp An Eye On Love 00:00 Tools
On Green Dolphin Street 00:00 Tools
Wonder Why 00:00 Tools
Nature Boy 00:00 Tools
Never Make Your Move Too Soon (live) 00:00 Tools
Just In Time 00:00 Tools
Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I do 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away) 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dream 00:00 Tools
Take The 'a' Train 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 00:00 Tools
T'Aint Nobody's Business 00:00 Tools
Reach Out - Live Version 00:00 Tools
When It All Comes Down 00:00 Tools
Social Call (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Be In Love - Live Version 00:00 Tools
It Could Happen To You 00:00 Tools
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House 00:00 Tools
Show Me 00:00 Tools
Simply Love - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Evil Spelled Backwards Means Live 00:00 Tools
All I Need Is You (Live) 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
You Were Always On My Mind 00:00 Tools
It's Easy to Remember 00:00 Tools
One Heartache Ago 00:00 Tools
A Lover's Question 00:00 Tools
If I Love Again 00:00 Tools
I Believe in You 00:00 Tools
Soft Shoe 00:00 Tools
Wrong Number 00:00 Tools
Nightlife Ain't No Good Life 00:00 Tools
Sister Moon 00:00 Tools
Gone With The Wind 00:00 Tools
You Deserve the Best 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Seeing You 00:00 Tools
The Thrill Is Gone 00:00 Tools
I'll Wind 00:00 Tools
A Kiss To Build A Dream On 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
Jazz Street 00:00 Tools
Easy To Love 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Will I Find My Love Today 00:00 Tools
Be Mine 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't That Swing 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was 00:00 Tools
Bargain Day 00:00 Tools
So Long 00:00 Tools
Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' 00:00 Tools
One Never Knows 00:00 Tools
Thought About You (Live) 00:00 Tools
Autumn In New-York 00:00 Tools
Lazy Afternoon (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Ain't No Easy Way 00:00 Tools
A Time for Love 00:00 Tools
Send in the Clowns 00:00 Tools
Yes Sir That's My Baby 00:00 Tools
You're My Everything 00:00 Tools
What's New (Live) 00:00 Tools
Porto Rico 00:00 Tools
Square Dance Boogie 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Any More 00:00 Tools
I'm Walking (Live) 00:00 Tools
K.C. Lover 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good 00:00 Tools
The Party's Over 00:00 Tools
Sunny (Live) 00:00 Tools
Please Send Me Someone to Love (Live) 00:00 Tools
This Could Be Dangerous 00:00 Tools
Monte Carlo Nights 00:00 Tools
Love Is Here To Stay 00:00 Tools
The Best Is Yet to Come 00:00 Tools
I Want A Little Boy 00:00 Tools
They Tried 00:00 Tools
My Heart Belongs to Daddy 00:00 Tools
How Can I Sing A Love Song 00:00 Tools
One Child 00:00 Tools
I Fall In Love To Easily 00:00 Tools
In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) 00:00 Tools
There Will Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Lil' Daddee 00:00 Tools
I Fall In Love Too Easily 00:00 Tools
Pieces of a Dream 00:00 Tools
Like Someone in Love (Recorded Live in 1962) 00:00 Tools
A Lover’s Question 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good) 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms 00:00 Tools
The Things We Did Last Summer 00:00 Tools
My Foolish Heart 00:00 Tools
A New Town is a Blue Town 00:00 Tools
I Heard You Cry Last Night 00:00 Tools
Simply Love 00:00 Tools
I Don't See Me In Yours Eyes Anymore 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Heart 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Trust In Me 00:00 Tools
The Second Time Around 00:00 Tools
Mercy,Mercy,Mercy 00:00 Tools
Don't Touch Me 00:00 Tools
Sleepin' Bee 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good) 00:00 Tools
T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Nightlife 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Pass This Way Again 00:00 Tools
(You'll Always Be) The One I Love 00:00 Tools
My One and Only Love 00:00 Tools
Big City 00:00 Tools
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) 00:00 Tools
In the Evenin' 00:00 Tools
Moanin (BBB 1967) 00:00 Tools
Suppertime 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel so Young (Recorded Live in 1962) 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet 00:00 Tools
Zing! Went the Strings 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Be In Love 00:00 Tools
Falling In Love With Love 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves (Live) 00:00 Tools
Godd Lovin' Babe 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves (Live) [feat. Buddy Defranco Quintet & The Terry Gibbs] 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It A 00:00 Tools
Reach Out 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
Quiet Nights 00:00 Tools
It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
Running Wild 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nonody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
Tha 00:00 Tools
Socail Call 00:00 Tools
Nightlife Ain't So Good 00:00 Tools
'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do 00:00 Tools
I'm Walkin 00:00 Tools
The Gypsy Goofed 00:00 Tools
Since I Fell For You 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet (Instr) 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Good 00:00 Tools
Take The A Train 00:00 Tools
I#m Walking 00:00 Tools
T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I 00:00 Tools
Lullaby Of Birdland 00:00 Tools
Isn't It Romantic 00:00 Tools
Get Out Under The Moon 00:00 Tools
Good Lovin' Babe 00:00 Tools
Social Call - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Closet (instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Funny How Time Slips Away 00:00 Tools
All Blues 1983 00:00 Tools
Take The `a' Train 00:00 Tools
One Mint Julip 00:00 Tools
Talk To Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Big Spender 00:00 Tools
The End Of A Love Affair 00:00 Tools
(You'll Always Be) The One I Love - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Let's Get Away From It All 00:00 Tools
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Hear 00:00 Tools
Come On, Baby, Let's Go 00:00 Tools
Someday My Prince will Come (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
On Geeen Dolphin Street 00:00 Tools
Stompin at the Savoy 00:00 Tools
Evil Spelled Backwards Means Live [1NyM] 00:00 Tools
Don't Gert Around Much Any More 00:00 Tools
Yes Sir, That's My Baby 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes - Recorded Live in 1962 00:00 Tools
In The Evening When The Sun Goes 00:00 Tools
Some Other Time (With George Shearing) 00:00 Tools
T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do / Ernestine Anderson 00:00 Tools
Everybody Eats When They Come to My 00:00 Tools
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Ernestine Anderson (November 11, 1928 – March 10, 2016) was an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than six decades, she recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She sang at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival (six times over a 33-year span), as well as at jazz festivals all over the world. In the early 1990s she joined Qwest Records, the label of fellow Garfield High School grad Quincy Jones. Ernestine Anderson (and her twin sister Josephine) were born, in Houston, Texas. By the age of 3, Anderson showed a knack for singing along with her parent’s old blues 78 rpm records by the likes of Bessie “The Empress of the Blues” Smith. Anderson started singing at a local church, singing solos in its gospel choir. Anderson tells of her early life in the book, The Jazz Scene (1998): "My parents used to play blues records all the time," Ernestine Anderson told me. "John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, all the blues greats. In Houston, where I grew up, you turned on the radio and what you got was country and western and gospel. I don't even remember what my first experience with music was. I sort of grew into it. My father sang in a gospel quartet and I used to follow him around, and both my grandparents sang in the Baptist church choir. And they had big bands coming through Houston like Jimmie Lunceford, Billy Eckstine, Erskine Hawkins, and Count Basie." Ernestine's godmother entered her in a local talent contest when she was twelve years old. "I only knew two songs," she admitted, "'On the Sunny Side of the Street' and 'So Long'. The piano player asked me what key did I do these songs in and I just said 'C' for some reason and it was the wrong key. In order to save face I sang around the melody, improvised among the melody, and when I finished one of the musicians told me I was a jazz singer." Her family moved to Seattle, Washington in 1944, when she was sixteen. Anderson graduated from Garfield High School. When she was eighteen, she left Seattle, to tour for a year with the Johnny Otis band. In 1952, she went on tour with Lionel Hampton's orchestra. After a year with the legendary band, she settled in New York, determined to make her way as a singer. Her appearance on Gigi Gryce's 1955 album Nica's Tempo (Savoy) led to a partnership with trumpeter Rolf Ericson for a three-month Scandinavian tour. Ernestine's first album in the United States was made after her debut album, recorded in Sweden and released here by Mercury Records under the title Hot Cargo (1958) the dean of America jazz critics, Ralph J. Gleason, began airing it on his hit-making radio show. In addition his nationally distributed San Francisco Chronicle jazz column, saying: “she is the best new jazz singer in a decade. She has good diction, time, an uncanny ability to phrase well, great warmth in her voice, a true tone and, on top of all that, she swings like mad.” , which created a huge sensation. In 1959 Anderson won the Down Beat "New Star" Award and recorded for Mercury to more acclaim, before dividing her time from the mid-60's between America and Europe. "I don't think jazz ever died. It suffered a setback during the sixties. I had to move to London in order to work because a jazz person couldn't work in the United States when rock 'n' roll became the music. I didn't think it would last this long, and I don't think the rock 'n' roll people thought it would last this long, but Quincy it had." Her re-emergence in the mid-1970s (at which time Ray Brown was her manager) came as a result of a sensational appearance at the 1976 Concord Jazz Festival, a string of albums for Concord Records followed. The next 17 years sealed Anderson’s reputation as a top-tier jazz and blues singer. She performed headlining shows far and wide and recorded almost 20 albums for Concord, two of which -- 1981’s Never Make Your Move Too Soon and 1983’s Big City -- earned GRAMMY Best Jazz Vocal Performance nominations. In the years that followed Anderson toured widely -- a triumphant series of dates in Japan led to the release of a four-disc live set in 1988 -- and that same year she made her debut at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. In addition, Anderson has performed at the Hollywood Bowl, at the Women In Jazz event at the Kennedy Center in 1999, at Monterey (1959, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1990, 2007), and at numerous other jazz festivals from New Orleans to Brazil, Berlin, Austria, and all around the globe. After leaving Concord Records in 1993, Anderson signed on with her old Seattle jazz scene pal, Quincy Jones, and his happening new label, Qwest, which issued two albums -- 1993’s Now and Then, and 1996’s Blues, Dues & Love News -- that also both received GRAMMY nominations. By the late 1990s she was signed to the Koch International label which issued her Isn’t It Romantic album, in 2003 her High Note label CD, Love Makes the Changes was a breakout hit, and her 2004 JVC CD, Hello Like Before, brought further accolades. Anderson was represented by Addeo Music International (AMI). She died peacefully, surrounded by her family in Shoreline, Washington on March 10, 2016 at the age of 87. Ernestine Anderson was featured in an article in Time magazine, August 4, 1958: "the voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land" after her first album release. She is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday. Ernestine invariably rejects the comparisons. "I wish," she says, "they would let me be just me." Anderson was one of 75 women chosen for the book, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1999), by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker. Within this book Ernestine Anderson joins such company as Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Oprah Winfrey, Lena Horne, and Sarah Vaughan. She won the Golden Umbrella award at the Bumbershoot Seattle arts festival in 2002. The award honors artists from the Northwestern United States "who have significantly contributed to the cultural landscape of our region." Anderson was chosen by the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy (an organization best known for the Grammy Awards) to receive its 2004 IMPACT Award. The IMPACT Award honors Northwest music professionals whose creative talents and accomplishments have crossed all musical boundaries and who have been recognized as an asset to the music community. In 2012, the Low Income Housing Institute named a housing project the "Ernestine Anderson Place" in her honor, noting Anderson's long residence in Seattle's Central District where the units are located. Ernestine Anderson Grammy History YearCategoryGenreTitleLabelResult 1996Best Jazz Vocal PerformanceJazzBlues, Dues & Love NewsQwestNominated 1993Best Jazz Vocal PerformanceJazzNow and ThenConcordNominated 1983Best Jazz Vocal Performance - FemaleJazzBig CityConcordNominated 1981Best Jazz Vocal Performance - FemaleJazzNever Make Your Move Too SoonConcordNominated Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.