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13. Jan. 2010 · Enjoy the classic sound of Duke Ellington and his orchestra, featuring the smooth voice of Herb Jeffries, in this 1941 soundie of Flamingo. This song was a hit for Ellington and Jeffries, who was ...
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27. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed in a series of all-black Western movies in the 1930s, has died at the age of 100. Known to cinema audiences as the Bronze Buckaroo, he ...
Herb Jeffries. Actor: The Bronze Buckaroo. This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films. Today he is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial doors in Hollywood and ultimately displayed a positive ...
30. Mai 2014 · Jeffries became a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1940 after Ellington heard him sing at the famed Apollo Theater. That same year he and the band recorded “Flamingo.” “Herb Jeffries was a kid we knew around Detroit,“ recalled Ellington. “We knew his family, and one day we agreed that he would come with us for the fun of it, with expenses and a little plus.” The stay ...
26. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries, ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So) By WILLIAM YARDLEY MAY 26, 2014 Photo A 1930s...
26. Mai 2014 · May 26, 2014. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial ...
27. Jan. 2023 · Duke’s piano accompaniment is likewise a superb enhancement to the vocal as well as everything the band does. Herb Jeffries’s vocal chorus, as well as the vocalise discussed above, are excellent. Jeffries had a rich, resonant voice, a fine sense of pitch, and a supremely relaxed delivery, all of which are well utilized in this performance ...
