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Nachdem sie John Hammond entdeckt hatte, debütierte sie als Sechzehnjährige 1939 als Bandvokalistin in Teddy Wilsons kurzlebigen Orchester, mit dem die sie Songs Love Grows on the White Oak Tree und This Is the Moment für Brunswick einspielte. 1939/40 gehörte sie dem Coleman Hawkins Orchester an, mit dem sie auf Bluebird Records ...
Thelma Carpenter (January 15, 1922 – May 14, 1997) was an American jazz singer and actress, best known as "Miss One", the Good Witch of the North in the movie The Wiz.
25. Mai 1997 · In 1939 the superb pianist Teddy Wilson, shortly after leaving Benny Goodman, formed his own big band, and invited Carpenter to provide the vocals. Boasting such musicians as Ben Webster,...
On land, Thelma Carpenter was contesting a gruelling battle of her own. At her seventh attempt, she finally managed to win her first professional billiards championship, defeating the two-time and defending champion, Ruth Harrison, by an impressive 2,184 to 1,641 score line.
Talent scout and record producer John Hammond picked up on her in 1939, when she was 19. Youthful as she still was, she was already performing and recording with classic jazz tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, with whom she would be closely associated.
5. Jan. 2009 · She was 16 when she got hired as vocalist for the new Teddy Wilson Orchestra. The band lasted less than a year, but Thelma managed to cut her first sides with them, two of which are heard here, the bouncy “Love Grows On The White Oak Tree” and the more tender “This Is The Moment,” recorded in 1939. As luck would have it ...
14. Mai 1997 · Carpenter spent time with Jack Jenney’s first band before becoming part of Teddy Wilson’s new orchestra in 1939. By October, though, she had left Wilson under what she called “very unpleasant circumstances.”
