[Dixielandjazz] Lizzie Miles

[Harry Callaghan]

Y'all are gonna have to excuse me today......I'm like a V-8 that's running
on only 6 of  its cylinders.

When I was talking about her being born in Lake Charles, LA, I was obviously
thinking of Nellie Lutcher, NOT Lizzie Miles.

I slept late this morning, but possibly not late enough.

HC

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Roger Wade <rwade1947 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I thought of Lizzie Miles also, but on her recordings with Sharkey Bonano's
> Kings of Dixieland on Capitol 78s around 1950.  She did Bill Bailey and
> several others in this fashion, mixing English and French.  Lizzie spent
> some time in France.
>
> Here is a brief bio from allaboutjazz.com:
>
> BIOGRAPHY
>
> Born: March 31, 1895 | Instrument: Vocals
>
> Lizzie Miles - vocalist (1895 - 1963)
> Lizzie Miles used her beauty and her huge voice to create a sophisticated,
> urbane style that was more suited for settings like the Cotton Club in
> Harlem than the tent shows of the South. Miles began her career singing in
> front of New Orleans bands that included such noted jazz musicians as King
> Oliver and Kid Ory, though, in her youth, she had worked Southern vaudeville
> shows and even joined up with a circus.
>
> Born Elizabeth Landreaux, she was a light-skinned Creole who was born on
> Bourbon Street in New Orlean, LA. Eventually she left New Orleans and moved
> to Chicago, then to New York, Paris, and back again to New York, all the
> while working clubs and cabarets. She recorded for Okeh in 1921 and later
> did sessions for Emerson, Columbia, and Victor. Although her recording
> catalog isn’t large, songs such as State Street Blues demonstrate the vocal
> dexterity she possessed. In the late 1930s, Miles returned to New Orleans
> and retired. However, in the 1950s, she resumed her career, performing and
> recording with the Bob Scobey Band and appearing at the Monterey Jazz
> Festival in 1958. She retired a second time in 1959.
>
> Miles sang pop ballads, vaudeville standards, and jazz-colored blues, both
> in French and English. During her prime, she attracted the same kind of
> audience that made Edith Wilson, Alberta Hunter, and Lucille Hegamin stars.
> Never dubbed a classic blues woman, when she sang the blues, she sang them
> with conviction. Lizzie Miles died of a heart attack on March 17, 1963.
>
>
>
>
> Roger Wade
> Really Old Records
>
> On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Ulf Jagfors wrote:
>
> > Perhaps it is a recording by George Lewis New Orleans band 1954 reissued
> on
> > a CD called sounds of New Orleans No 1. The name of the female singer is
> > Lizzie Miles. She ends the singing in Creole French. She also sings part
> of
> > Darktown Strutters Ball in Creole (Creolo)
> >
> > I found it easily on Spotify under Bill Bailey search word, for those who
> > has access to Spotify. You can listen to the recording(s) on Spotify if
> you
> > are in Europe and also download it or the whole album permanently to your
> PC
> > if you pay for that.
> >
> > Ulf Jaegfors
> > Stockholm
>
>
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