Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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86949340 | Play | It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485781 | Play | I Love Being Here With You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485787 | Play | There Will Never Be Another You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485786 | Play | See See Rider | 00:00 Tools | |
4485785 | Play | My Kinda Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485788 | Play | Someone Else Is Steppin' In | 04:48 Tools | |
4485783 | Play | Never Make Your Move Too Soon | 00:00 Tools | |
4485784 | Play | Keep an Eye On Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485789 | Play | You're Not the Guy for Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485792 | Play | They Didn't Believe Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485798 | Play | I Got Rhythm | 00:00 Tools | |
4485795 | Play | In A Mellow Tone | 00:00 Tools | |
4485790 | Play | Land Of Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
4485796 | Play | As Long As I Live | 00:00 Tools | |
4485801 | Play | I'm Walkin' | 00:00 Tools | |
48963461 | Play | Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
4485803 | Play | Moonlight In Vermont | 00:00 Tools | |
4485794 | Play | Goin' to Chicago Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
4485800 | Play | What A Diff'rence a Day Made | 00:00 Tools | |
48963462 | Play | Love For Sale | 00:00 Tools | |
4485818 | Play | All My Life | 00:00 Tools | |
4485804 | Play | Trouble Is A Man | 00:00 Tools | |
4485830 | Play | Harlem Nocturne | 00:00 Tools | |
4485810 | Play | Welcome To The Club | 00:00 Tools | |
4485806 | Play | Heat Wave | 00:00 Tools | |
48963464 | Play | Mad About The Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
48963463 | Play | You Go To My Head | 00:00 Tools | |
4485814 | Play | I'll Never Be The Same | 00:00 Tools | |
4485805 | Play | Stardust | 00:00 Tools | |
4485799 | Play | That Old Feeling | 00:00 Tools | |
4485836 | Play | Lazy Afternoon | 00:00 Tools | |
4485807 | Play | Someday My Prince Will Come | 00:00 Tools | |
4485811 | Play | My Shining Hour | 00:00 Tools | |
4485802 | Play | Runnin' Wild | 00:00 Tools | |
4485847 | Play | Sunny | 00:00 Tools | |
4485844 | Play | Black Moonlight | 00:00 Tools | |
4485817 | Play | Alone On My Own | 00:00 Tools | |
4485816 | Play | There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York | 00:00 Tools | |
4485833 | Play | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | 00:00 Tools | |
4485824 | Play | Just One More Chance | 00:00 Tools | |
4485870 | Play | What a Difference a Day Makes | 00:00 Tools | |
4485885 | Play | The Song Is Ended | 00:00 Tools | |
4485820 | Play | You Were Always On My Mind - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485822 | Play | Mound Bayou | 00:00 Tools | |
48963465 | Play | Autumn In New York | 00:00 Tools | |
4485828 | Play | I'm Just A Lucky So And So | 00:00 Tools | |
4485918 | Play | Show Me (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485843 | Play | Old Folks | 00:00 Tools | |
4486005 | Play | All Blues (Live Version) | 07:34 Tools | |
4485970 | Play | Reach Out (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485839 | Play | Down Home Blues | 06:04 Tools | |
4485942 | Play | Sister Moon (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485907 | Play | The Thrill Is Gone (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485930 | Play | Only Trust Your Heart (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485975 | Play | Don't Touch Me (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4486069 | Play | How Can I Sing A Love Song (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485850 | Play | Bird Of Beauty | 00:00 Tools | |
4485978 | Play | Simply Love (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485852 | Play | My Ship | 00:00 Tools | |
4485855 | Play | This Can't Be Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485968 | Play | It Hurts To Be In Love (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485841 | Play | All I Need Is You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485866 | Play | Social Call | 00:00 Tools | |
4485851 | Play | T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do | 00:00 Tools | |
4485809 | Play | Day by Day | 00:00 Tools | |
4485815 | Play | Azure-Te | 00:00 Tools | |
4485808 | Play | Song Is Ended | 00:00 Tools | |
4485876 | Play | Skylark | 00:00 Tools | |
4485856 | Play | Day Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
4485829 | Play | Poor Butterfly | 00:00 Tools | |
4485813 | Play | Body and Soul | 00:00 Tools | |
4485869 | Play | Time After Time | 00:00 Tools | |
4485854 | Play | Don't Get Around Much Anymore | 00:00 Tools | |
4485878 | Play | In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down | 00:00 Tools | |
4485845 | Play | All Blues - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485846 | Play | Did I Remember? | 00:00 Tools | |
4485912 | Play | Little Girl Blue | 00:00 Tools | |
4485842 | Play | Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
4485821 | Play | The Thrill Is Gone - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485861 | Play | Please Send Me Someone to Love | 00:00 Tools | |
48963466 | Play | All Blues (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485865 | Play | I Am His Lady | 00:00 Tools | |
4485848 | Play | Stompin' at the Savoy | 00:00 Tools | |
4485896 | Play | all blues | 00:00 Tools | |
4485837 | Play | A Sleepin' Bee | 00:00 Tools | |
4485915 | Play | Some Other Time | 00:00 Tools | |
4485862 | Play | Show Me - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
48963468 | Play | Looking For A Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
4485893 | Play | You Were Always On My Mind (Live Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485849 | Play | Supper Time | 00:00 Tools | |
4485858 | Play | Experiment | 00:00 Tools | |
4485864 | Play | Interlude | 00:00 Tools | |
48963467 | Play | The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963469 | Play | My man | 00:00 Tools | |
4485868 | Play | Sack Full of Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
4485860 | Play | Sunday in New York | 00:00 Tools | |
4485875 | Play | Did I Remember | 00:00 Tools | |
4485874 | Play | Feeling Good | 00:00 Tools | |
48963470 | Play | Our Love Is Here To Stay | 00:00 Tools | |
4485834 | Play | Wait Till You See Him | 00:00 Tools | |
4485886 | Play | Ill Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
4486059 | Play | Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do | 00:00 Tools | |
4485898 | Play | It Don't Mean a Thing | 00:00 Tools | |
4485984 | Play | A Song for You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485825 | Play | Love Walked In | 00:00 Tools | |
4485979 | Play | Make Someone Happy | 00:00 Tools | |
4485863 | Play | Christopher Columbus | 00:00 Tools | |
4485826 | Play | Boogie Down | 00:00 Tools | |
4485892 | Play | I've Got The World On A String | 00:00 Tools | |
4485952 | Play | Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485906 | Play | Summertime | 00:00 Tools | |
4485840 | Play | Only Trust Your Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
4485877 | Play | On My Own | 00:00 Tools | |
4485935 | Play | I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
4485867 | Play | Why Did I Choose You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485962 | Play | Am I Blue | 00:00 Tools | |
4485819 | Play | One Mint Julep | 00:00 Tools | |
4485889 | Play | Hooray For Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485991 | Play | Street Of Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
48963471 | Play | Out of My Continental Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
4485949 | Play | God Bless The Child | 00:00 Tools | |
4485987 | Play | A LOVELY WAY TO SPEND AN EVENING | 00:00 Tools | |
4485887 | Play | Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485823 | Play | Le Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
48963472 | Play | You Make Me Feel So Young | 00:00 Tools | |
4485835 | Play | Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485928 | Play | My Romance | 00:00 Tools | |
4485973 | Play | This Time the Dream's on Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485956 | Play | London by Night | 00:00 Tools | |
4485838 | Play | That Sunday That Summer | 00:00 Tools | |
4485880 | Play | They Don´t Believe Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485996 | Play | Days Of Wine And Roses | 00:00 Tools | |
4485940 | Play | Why Did I Choose You? | 00:00 Tools | |
48963492 | Play | All My Life (Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485894 | Play | Continental Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
48963474 | Play | Angel Eyes | 00:00 Tools | |
4485945 | Play | You Are My Sunshine | 00:00 Tools | |
4485881 | Play | Hello Like Before | 00:00 Tools | |
4485919 | Play | Only Trust Your Heart - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4486041 | Play | They Donґt Believe Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485888 | Play | Don't Touch Me - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485897 | Play | I Could Write a Book | 00:00 Tools | |
4485939 | Play | Sister Moon - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485879 | Play | It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
4485903 | Play | I Should Care | 00:00 Tools | |
4485873 | Play | In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down Low | 00:00 Tools | |
4485905 | Play | Spring Is Here | 00:00 Tools | |
4485937 | Play | Be Mine (Tonight) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485981 | Play | Lend Me Your Life | 00:00 Tools | |
4485931 | Play | How Can I Sing A Love Song - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485993 | Play | CANDY | 00:00 Tools | |
4485924 | Play | I'm Comin' Home Again | 00:00 Tools | |
4485910 | Play | Little Bird | 00:00 Tools | |
48963493 | Play | Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
4485988 | Play | Love Makes the Changes | 00:00 Tools | |
4485929 | Play | Ain't Nobody's Business | 00:00 Tools | |
4485891 | Play | Take The "A" Train | 00:00 Tools | |
48963473 | Play | Mercy Mercy Mercy | 00:00 Tools | |
4486019 | Play | Stormy Monday | 00:00 Tools | |
4486002 | Play | FOR ALL WE KNOW | 00:00 Tools | |
4485883 | Play | In a Mellotone | 00:00 Tools | |
4486015 | Play | On The Sunny Side Of The Street | 00:00 Tools | |
4485882 | Play | Be Mine Tonight | 00:00 Tools | |
4485911 | Play | There Is No Greater Love | 00:00 Tools | |
86949344 | Play | Keepp An Eye On Love | 00:00 Tools | |
48963486 | Play | On Green Dolphin Street | 00:00 Tools | |
4485964 | Play | Wonder Why | 00:00 Tools | |
4485902 | Play | Nature Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
48963504 | Play | Never Make Your Move Too Soon (live) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963477 | Play | Just In Time | 00:00 Tools | |
4485986 | Play | Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I do | 00:00 Tools | |
4485967 | Play | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963479 | Play | Honeysuckle Rose | 00:00 Tools | |
4485913 | Play | Wrap Your Troubles in Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
48963476 | Play | Take The 'a' Train | 00:00 Tools | |
48963475 | Play | I Remember Clifford | 00:00 Tools | |
4485895 | Play | T'Aint Nobody's Business | 00:00 Tools | |
4485927 | Play | Reach Out - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
4485920 | Play | When It All Comes Down | 00:00 Tools | |
86949341 | Play | Social Call (Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485921 | Play | It Hurts To Be In Love - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
48963482 | Play | It Could Happen To You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485922 | Play | Everybody Eats When They Come To My House | 00:00 Tools | |
4485917 | Play | Show Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485953 | Play | Simply Love - Live Version | 00:00 Tools | |
48963481 | Play | Evil Spelled Backwards Means Live | 00:00 Tools | |
48963498 | Play | All I Need Is You (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485900 | Play | My Funny Valentine | 00:00 Tools | |
4485955 | Play | Satin Doll | 00:00 Tools | |
4485948 | Play | You Were Always On My Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
4486098 | Play | It's Easy to Remember | 00:00 Tools | |
48963478 | Play | One Heartache Ago | 00:00 Tools | |
4486094 | Play | A Lover's Question | 00:00 Tools | |
48963480 | Play | If I Love Again | 00:00 Tools | |
48963484 | Play | I Believe in You | 00:00 Tools | |
4486026 | Play | Soft Shoe | 00:00 Tools | |
4485914 | Play | Wrong Number | 00:00 Tools | |
4485934 | Play | Nightlife Ain't No Good Life | 00:00 Tools | |
4485872 | Play | Sister Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
48963491 | Play | Gone With The Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
48963483 | Play | You Deserve the Best | 00:00 Tools | |
4485938 | Play | I'll Be Seeing You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485890 | Play | The Thrill Is Gone | 00:00 Tools | |
4485989 | Play | I'll Wind | 00:00 Tools | |
4486039 | Play | A Kiss To Build A Dream On | 00:00 Tools | |
48963487 | Play | Solitude | 00:00 Tools | |
4485908 | Play | Jazz Street | 00:00 Tools | |
4486056 | Play | Easy To Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485909 | Play | A Night In Tunisia | 00:00 Tools | |
48963485 | Play | Will I Find My Love Today | 00:00 Tools | |
4486006 | Play | Be Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
4486062 | Play | It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't That Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
48963490 | Play | I Didn't Know What Time It Was | 00:00 Tools | |
4485943 | Play | Bargain Day | 00:00 Tools | |
4485995 | Play | So Long | 00:00 Tools | |
4486040 | Play | Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' | 00:00 Tools | |
48963488 | Play | One Never Knows | 00:00 Tools | |
48963501 | Play | Thought About You (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485954 | Play | Autumn In New-York | 00:00 Tools | |
48963507 | Play | Lazy Afternoon (Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485947 | Play | Ain't No Easy Way | 00:00 Tools | |
4486065 | Play | A Time for Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4486020 | Play | Send in the Clowns | 00:00 Tools | |
4486091 | Play | Yes Sir That's My Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
4485977 | Play | You're My Everything | 00:00 Tools | |
48963505 | Play | What's New (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485980 | Play | Porto Rico | 00:00 Tools | |
4486048 | Play | Square Dance Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
4485899 | Play | Fascinating Rhythm | 00:00 Tools | |
48963489 | Play | Don't Get Around Much Any More | 00:00 Tools | |
48963500 | Play | I'm Walking (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485999 | Play | K.C. Lover | 00:00 Tools | |
48963495 | Play | I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good | 00:00 Tools | |
4486064 | Play | The Party's Over | 00:00 Tools | |
48963509 | Play | Sunny (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963516 | Play | Please Send Me Someone to Love (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485961 | Play | This Could Be Dangerous | 00:00 Tools | |
4485904 | Play | Monte Carlo Nights | 00:00 Tools | |
4485950 | Play | Love Is Here To Stay | 00:00 Tools | |
48963494 | Play | The Best Is Yet to Come | 00:00 Tools | |
48963497 | Play | I Want A Little Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
4486078 | Play | They Tried | 00:00 Tools | |
4485936 | Play | My Heart Belongs to Daddy | 00:00 Tools | |
4485966 | Play | How Can I Sing A Love Song | 00:00 Tools | |
4485932 | Play | One Child | 00:00 Tools | |
48963496 | Play | I Fall In Love To Easily | 00:00 Tools | |
4486050 | Play | In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) | 00:00 Tools | |
4486063 | Play | There Will Be Another You | 00:00 Tools | |
4485997 | Play | Lil' Daddee | 00:00 Tools | |
48963502 | Play | I Fall In Love Too Easily | 00:00 Tools | |
4486014 | Play | Pieces of a Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
89039971 | Play | Like Someone in Love (Recorded Live in 1962) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485951 | Play | A Lover’s Question | 00:00 Tools | |
86949343 | Play | Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485916 | Play | I Wish I Was Back in My Baby's Arms | 00:00 Tools | |
4486096 | Play | The Things We Did Last Summer | 00:00 Tools | |
4486057 | Play | My Foolish Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
4485941 | Play | A New Town is a Blue Town | 00:00 Tools | |
4486012 | Play | I Heard You Cry Last Night | 00:00 Tools | |
4485963 | Play | Simply Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4485974 | Play | I Don't See Me In Yours Eyes Anymore | 00:00 Tools | |
4485923 | Play | Nobody's Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
4485933 | Play | Beale Street Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
4486030 | Play | Trust In Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4486004 | Play | The Second Time Around | 00:00 Tools | |
4486037 | Play | Mercy,Mercy,Mercy | 00:00 Tools | |
4485946 | Play | Don't Touch Me | 00:00 Tools | |
4485958 | Play | Sleepin' Bee | 00:00 Tools | |
4486074 | Play | Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good) | 00:00 Tools | |
4486084 | Play | T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do | 00:00 Tools | |
48963503 | Play | Nightlife | 00:00 Tools | |
4486097 | Play | I'll Never Pass This Way Again | 00:00 Tools | |
4486007 | Play | (You'll Always Be) The One I Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4486038 | Play | My One and Only Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4486027 | Play | Big City | 00:00 Tools | |
48963499 | Play | Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485992 | Play | In the Evenin' | 00:00 Tools | |
4486001 | Play | Moanin (BBB 1967) | 00:00 Tools | |
4485944 | Play | Suppertime | 00:00 Tools | |
89039972 | Play | You Make Me Feel so Young (Recorded Live in 1962) | 00:00 Tools | |
4486003 | Play | Blues in the Closet | 00:00 Tools | |
4485901 | Play | Zing! Went the Strings | 00:00 Tools | |
4485971 | Play | It Hurts To Be In Love | 00:00 Tools | |
4486051 | Play | Falling In Love With Love | 00:00 Tools | |
48963511 | Play | Autumn Leaves (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963506 | Play | Godd Lovin' Babe | 00:00 Tools | |
48963521 | Play | Autumn Leaves (Live) [feat. Buddy Defranco Quintet & The Terry Gibbs] | 00:00 Tools | |
86949342 | Play | It Don't Mean A Thing (If It A | 00:00 Tools | |
4485926 | Play | Reach Out | 00:00 Tools | |
48963508 | Play | It Don't Mean A Thing (It Ain't Got That Swing) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963533 | Play | Quiet Nights | 00:00 Tools | |
4485782 | Play | It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) | 00:00 Tools | |
4486044 | Play | Running Wild | 00:00 Tools | |
4486081 | Play | Tain't Nonody's Bizness If I Do | 00:00 Tools | |
4486010 | Play | Tha | 00:00 Tools | |
4485960 | Play | Socail Call | 00:00 Tools | |
48963510 | Play | Nightlife Ain't So Good | 00:00 Tools | |
48963512 | Play | 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do | 00:00 Tools | |
4485969 | Play | I'm Walkin | 00:00 Tools | |
48963513 | Play | The Gypsy Goofed | 00:00 Tools | |
86949347 | Play | Since I Fell For You | 00:00 Tools | |
48963534 | Play | Blues in the Closet (Instr) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963514 | Play | Feelin' Good | 00:00 Tools | |
48963515 | Play | Take The A Train | 00:00 Tools | |
48963517 | Play | I#m Walking | 00:00 Tools | |
4485976 | Play | T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I | 00:00 Tools | |
48963524 | Play | Lullaby Of Birdland | 00:00 Tools | |
4486047 | Play | Isn't It Romantic | 00:00 Tools | |
48963518 | Play | Get Out Under The Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
48963520 | Play | Good Lovin' Babe | 00:00 Tools | |
48963523 | Play | Social Call - Bonus Track | 00:00 Tools | |
48963522 | Play | Blues In The Closet (instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963525 | Play | Funny How Time Slips Away | 00:00 Tools | |
4486060 | Play | All Blues 1983 | 00:00 Tools | |
4486073 | Play | Take The `a' Train | 00:00 Tools | |
4486052 | Play | One Mint Julip | 00:00 Tools | |
48963526 | Play | Talk To Me Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
48963527 | Play | Big Spender | 00:00 Tools | |
48963528 | Play | The End Of A Love Affair | 00:00 Tools | |
48963532 | Play | (You'll Always Be) The One I Love - Bonus Track | 00:00 Tools | |
48963529 | Play | Let's Get Away From It All | 00:00 Tools | |
48963530 | Play | I Let A Song Go Out Of My Hear | 00:00 Tools | |
4485925 | Play | Come On, Baby, Let's Go | 00:00 Tools | |
86949345 | Play | Someday My Prince will Come (Vocal) | 00:00 Tools | |
89039973 | Play | On Geeen Dolphin Street | 00:00 Tools | |
4485965 | Play | Stompin at the Savoy | 00:00 Tools | |
89039974 | Play | Evil Spelled Backwards Means Live [1NyM] | 00:00 Tools | |
89039975 | Play | Don't Gert Around Much Any More | 00:00 Tools | |
86949346 | Play | Yes Sir, That's My Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
89039976 | Play | Angel Eyes - Recorded Live in 1962 | 00:00 Tools | |
48963535 | Play | In The Evening When The Sun Goes | 00:00 Tools | |
48963536 | Play | Some Other Time (With George Shearing) | 00:00 Tools | |
48963537 | Play | T'ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do / Ernestine Anderson | 00:00 Tools | |
48963538 | Play | Everybody Eats When They Come to My | 00:00 Tools |
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.