- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 100 Years of Music · 2016
- 77 Legendary Big Band Tunes By Les Brown (The Best of Les Brown) · 2012
- Jazz Classics · 2012
- Late Night Jazz Down the Memory Lane · 2012
Singles & EPs
Compilations
About Herb Jeffries
Although not really a jazz singer, Herb Jeffries was the last surviving member of the 1940 Duke Ellington Orchestra and a fine interpreter of swing songs and ballads. He performed with Erskine Tate in the early '30s, Earl Hines (1931-1934), and Blanche Calloway before becoming the first Black cowboy actor in a series of '30s Westerns. He gained his greatest fame while with Ellington (1940-1942), having a big hit in "Flamingo." Jeffries, who recorded with Sidney Bechet in 1940, worked as a single artist after leaving Ellington in 1942, recording on an occasional basis and remaining active into the mid-'90s. He died, reportedly of heart failure, on May 25, 2014 in West Hills, California. ~ Scott Yanow
- HOMETOWN
- Detroit, MI, United States
- BORN
- 24 September 1913
- GENRE
- Jazz