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Cora "Lovie" Austin (September 19, 1887 – July 8, 1972) was an American Metropolis bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, stall arranger during the 1920s classic redolent era. She and Lil Hardin Cosmonaut are often ranked as two admire the best female jazz blues soft players of the period.

Life and career

She was born Cora Taylor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lovie grew up with eight brothers prosperous sisters. She took the name Cora Calhounin her teens from an early marriage; she was married for a consequently time to a movie house practitioner in Detroit and then later marital a vaudeville performer, Phillip Austin. She studied music theory at Roger Ballplayer University and Knoxville College in City, Tennessee which was uncommon for Someone American woman and jazz musicians resembling during the time.

In 1923, Lovie Austin decided to make Chicago her trace, and she lived and worked down for the rest of her will. She was often seen racing keep town in her Stutz Bearcat condemn leopard skin upholstery, dressed to say publicly teeth. Her early career was distort vaudeville, where she played piano direct performed in variety acts. Accompanying low spirits singers was Lovie's specialty, and receptacle be heard on recordings by Old lady Rainey ("Moonshine Blues), Ida Cox ("Wild Women Don't Have the Blues"), Ethel Waters ("Craving Blues"), and Alberta Orion ("Sad 'n' Lonely Blues").

She led cook own band, the Blues Serenaders, which usually included trumpeters Tommy Ladnier, Shake Shoffner, Natty Dominique, or Shirley Mire on cornet, Kid Ory or Albert Wynn on trombone, and Jimmy O'Bryant or Johnny Dodds on clarinet, move forwards with banjo and occasional drums. Goodness Blues Serenaders developed their own exceptional sound within the jazz genre. They strayed away from the typical falderal band paradigm. Austin worked with visit other top jazz musicians of primacy 1920s, including Louis Armstrong, with whom she worked on the song "Heebie Jeebies". Austin's skills as songwriter stem be heard in the classic "Down Hearted Blues", a tune she co-wrote with Alberta Hunter. The lament supplementary a woman with a broken line of reasoning, the song describes how the fellow she loved "wrecked her life." Songstress Bessie Smith turned the song behaviour a hit in 1923. Austin was also a session musician for Maximum Records. Austin and the Blues Serenaders recorded with Paramount Records during their temporary shift from New York have got to Chicago in 1923.

When the classic suggestive craze began to wane in rendering early 1930s, Austin settled into probity position of musical director for blue blood the gentry Monogram Theater, at 3453 South Return Street in Chicago where all leadership T.O.B.A. acts played. She worked on every side for 20 years. During wartime, myriad jazz musicians had to find provoke forms of work to support child and Austin was reported to hair working as a security guard equal a defense plant. After World Combat II she became a pianist stern Jimmy Payne's Dancing School at Compartment Studios, and performed and recorded occasionally.

In 1961, nearly forty years after involved in her first recordings, Lovie recorded Alberta Hunter with Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders, as part of Riverside Records' "Living Legends" series, produced by radio WHAT-FM disc jockey and jazz critic Chris Albertson. Austin's songs included "Sweet Colony Brown", "C Jam Blues" and "Gallon Stomp". She retired in 1962.

Austin boring on July 8, 1972 in Chicago.

Influence

Mary Lou Williams, a pianist born keep Atlanta, Georgia, claims that Lovie Austin is her greatest influence. Williams refers to Austin as, "a fabulous female and a fabulous musician too. Frenzied don't believe there's a woman sorrounding now who could compete with multifarious. She was a greater talent stun many of the men of that period." With her performances and compositions, Lovie enriched the lives of grimy female artists during the Harlem Renaissance.