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This is a great 5-CD collection that gives a look into the history of Kansas City Blues 1930-1960. Lots of deep cuts on here which are some of her best songs, no longer readily available on the accessible compilations. Booklet is gorgeous and tells the history of Julia, her sessions and each recording with all the side musician information.
He was taken aback by her playing and singing. It was then that Dexter told Lee, “I’m gonna get you on some records some day,” according to a 1986 interview with The Kansas City Star. Dexter kept true to that promise. As a Capitol Records executive, he signed Lee to the label in 1944, jumpstarting her series of “risky” hits.
Julia Lee, Kansas City Star (Bear Family Records BCD 15770, 5 CD-Set). Julia Lee, Snatch And Grab It: The Essential Julia Lee (CD, Indigo). Weblinks. Julia Lee bei AllMusic (englisch) Julia Lee: Vom Boyfriend zum Sweetheart (Memento vom 6. Februar 2009 im Internet Archive) African-American History (engl.) (Memento vom 4.
Format: 5×CD, Year: 1995, Label: Bear Family Records (BCD 15770EI), Barcode: 4000127157706, Length: 5:10:37
28 mar 2021 · Julia Lee was the queen of Kansas City blues when the city was a center of the jazz and blues universe. A pianist and singer in the first half of the 20th century, she was a major star — even if ...
Eine Fundgrube für jeden, der nicht ganz salonfähigen Blues, Kansas City Jazz oder Jazzgesang mit kleiner Gruppe mag. Review. Die Dame muß man nicht kennen. Aber es lohnt sich unbedingt, Julia Lee kennenzulernen: Die Sängerin war Ende der 20er bis in die 50er Jahre eine der großen schwarzen Jazz- sowie R&B-Stimmen und eine swingende Pianistin.
Lee married Frank Duncan, a star catcher and manager of the Negro National League's Kansas City Monarchs, also a native of Kansas City, in 1919. Lee frequently performed in all-white nightclubs, and Duncan had to sit with the orchestra, pretending to be a musician, in order to see her performing there.
