1930s - People - Musicians

Musicians

  • George Gershwin in 1937, the year of his death

  • Carl van Vechten, Bessie Smith, 1936. She was an early blues singer, was known for her powerful voice.

  • Lead Belly and his wife Martha Promise Ledbetter in Wilton, Conn., February 1935. On January 20 of the same year, the two were married at Mary Elizabeth Barnicle's Wilton farmhouse, and on the same day Lead Belly made the first recording of "Alberta" there for John Lomax and the Library of Congress.

  • Composer and jazz pianist Fats Waller in 1938

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    Cab Calloway and The Cotton Club Orchestra, 1934 photo of His High-de-Highness of Ho-de-Ho and the band

  • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, 1934

  • Harold Arlen
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Fred Astaire
  • Count Basie
  • Cab Calloway
  • Eddie Cantor
  • Nat King Cole
  • Noël Coward
  • Bing Crosby
  • Vernon Duke
  • Jimmy Durante
  • Duke Ellington
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • George Gershwin
  • Ira Gershwin
  • Benny Goodman
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Billie Holiday
  • Lena Horne
  • Al Jolson
  • Jerome Kern
  • Lead Belly
  • Glenn Miller
  • Édith Piaf
  • Cole Porter
  • Ma Rainey
  • Django Reinhardt
  • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
  • Rodgers and Hart
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Bessie Smith
  • Fats Waller
  • Ethel Waters

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