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'Good Night, Sweet Blues' and the Legacy of Ida Cox: Jazz, Women, and Agency in Route 66 (1961)
Ist Teil von
Film & history, 2021-12, Vol.51 (2), p.30-42
Ort / Verlag
Cleveland, OK: Center for the Study of Film and History
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EBSCOhost Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Beschreibungen/Notizen
On Blues for Rampart Street., blues singer/songwriter Ida Cox (1896-1967), who had been retired and out of the public eye for at least sixteen years, recorded what she intended to be her "final statement," as the album's producer Orrin Keepnews phrased it (Keepnews: 1961). According to an unsigned article of August 5, 1961, in The Pittsburgh Courier,, the search for Cox began with an attempt to locate her in order to pay royalties: Last year John Hammond, the noted jazz authority, released a two-record set of his famous "Spirituals to Swing" Carnegie Hall concerts which he had recorded in '38 and '39. ("Roaring Twenties Blues Queen is Recording Again": 1961) Hammond began his search for Cox by placing an advertisement in the November 25, 1959, issue of Variety, the most prominent show-business newspaper, under the (oddly-phrased) headline "Seek Ida Cox for $$": John Hammond, who recently rejoined Columbia Records artists & repertoire staff, would like to know the whereabouts of the notes blues singer Ida Cox, a contemporary of Bessie Smith and who dropped out of the music