10 - Leadbelly (1888-1949)
Huddie Ledbetter Wlliam known as Leadbelly or Lead Belly
was a virtuoso 12-string acoustic guitar.
also played the piano, violin and harmonica, and his ballads, then used by many white folk singer, were a fusion of folk, ragtime and boogie woogie.
At 21 he started to run in Texas and Louisiana, playing and drinking but often also working as a cotton picker or worker for the railroad.
Over 10 years playing clubs for blacks where he meets Blind Lemon Jefferson.
is in jail in 1916 but managed to escape, again after two years was sentenced to thirty years hard labor for killing a man in a brawl.
After 7 years and was pardoned by the Governor is said to have happened to a song dedicated to him, where clemency requests.
In 1930 he was rearrested and sentenced for attempted murder.
in prison in 1933 he met John Lomax a scholar who traveled the South in search of traditional ballads within days direct recorded hundreds of songs.
year still in prison after Lomax recorded the famous passage in which he asked forgiveness, makes it a hard and does it deliver to the Governor. Thanks to this
get back to grace, out of prison and a year later, in 1935, Lomax's organizing a tour in the north where it gets a good success.
His character and violent temper led him quickly back to the dispute and end the relationship with the student.
But thanks to recordings made in jail, now known by the public and music business, he began to record and work.
in 1949 was to leave for their first European tour, but he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral that led to his death on December 6 of that year.
11 - Furry Lewis
(1893-1981)
started playing as a young street artist with an instrument constructed by himself, knows who will be delighted by the quality of WC Handy gave him his first real guitar. At 16
enter into a jug band to play in the Medicine Shows, the peddlers of drugs sellers miraculous, that becomes his real gym.
In the 20's back to Memphis to play in clubs and cited the famous Beale Street.
In 1923 he was hired in the Department of Health where he will work for 43 years.
the late twenties recorded some tracks including Kassie Jones, Stack O Lee and John Henry, but soon after leaving the music.
was rediscovered in 1959 with the Blues Revival and resumed his career with a popular and commercial success.
The Blues Revival of the 60 allowed the rediscovery of these great artists who took up to record their songs, many now lost, and we now have, thanks to this great initiative, the ability to listen.
Thanks to this he played with the Rolling Stones and Leon Russell, took part in the film.
In 1976, Joni Mitchell's song dedicated to a famous Furry Lewis Sings the Blues. In
utime begins to lose his sight in 1981 and died of pneumonia.
12 - Louis Jordan
(1908-1975)
He was a pioneer of the jump blues, a mix of jazz, blues and boogie woogie.
The jump was mainly dance music, which then will be born rockabilly and rock and roll.
instrumentalist, playing the alto saxophone, piano and clarinet in his career he has played with the greats of his era from Bing Crosby to Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles to BB King.
began playing in the big swing bands, but became famous with his band Five Tympany for his catchy and entertaining style, characterized by a strong rhythm section of piano, bass and drums in addition to the guitar after '48 electrical and later electronic organ, which was an absolute pioneer.
in 1932 with Clarence Williams in 1936 with the Chick Webb Orchestra, where he met Ella Fitzgerald.
Webb died in 1938 and Jordan formed his group Tympany Five.
In the same year he recorded in the Honey Bee and Ball Barnacie Bill the Sailor.
Keep A Knockin
In 1939, Sam Jones Done snagged His Britches and Doug the Jitterbug.
In 40 You're My Meat and You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business 41 and another piece of great success Knock Me A Kiss.
Jordan had a great commercial success, his shows are famous for its friendliness and its ability to entertain.
His discography includes over 20 albums in a period where you could buy only the individual, with millions units sold.
From 1942 to 1950 he was King of the Jukebox and the song was the most successful East Coast Blues.
In 1951 starts to decline (it was the time of rockabilly and rock and roll) even if it continues to record until the early 60's.
died in 1975 of a heart attack.
13 - Helen Humes
(1913-1981)
great vocalist, with wonderful performances in both blues in jazz.
In 1937, the Harry James orchestra enters and affects Jubilee, I Can Dream Can not I, That's The Dreamer in Me and Song of Wanderer.
38 is in the orchestra Count Basie replacing another great vocalist Billie Holiday.
years 40 and 50 he began his solo career, he worked with Nat King Cole, affects Be Baba Leba and Million Dollar Secret. In
50 Rock Me to Sleep and participates in the Monterey Festival in 1960.
Exit then go back to the music in 1973 with the Newport Jazz Festival, thanks to which the great resumes his career until his death from cancer in 1981.
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