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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 101 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 101 audio recordings and 7 moving image recordings that document her career as a jazz performer and span the years 1936-1990.

Subject

1. Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987
2. Jackson, Cliff
3. African American musicians
4. African American women entertainers
5. African American women in popular culture
6. African American women singers
7. African American women jazz singers
8. Jazz musicians -- United States
9. Jazz singers -- United States
10. Swing (Music)
11. Women jazz musicians
12. Women singers -- United States

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Sullivan 2007-11

Source (note)

1. Ed Poteat

Biography (note)

1. African American jazz soloist Maxine Sullivan was known for her cool and arresting "whispering voice," soothing style, gentle rhythmic phrasing, and intricate swing delivery. She became well known in the late 1930s for her swing performance of the Scottish traditional ballad Loch Lomond. The song became her signature piece and catapulted her career. During this period Sullivan performed as the main act at the Onyx Club on 52nd Street in New York City, alongside bassist John Kirby and his band. Sullivan and Kirby married in 1938 but were divorced three years later. In 1950, Sullivan married pianist Cliff Jackson. Excluding a ten-year break she took from show-business in 1957, Sullivan's career spanned four decades. Sullivan was also popular with jazz enthusiasts outside of the United States and she toured internationally several times.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Maxine Sullivan papers, 1936-1987. (Sc MG 473). Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Author

1. Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987, creator.

Title

1. Maxine Sullivan audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [2007]

Biography

1. African American jazz soloist Maxine Sullivan was known for her cool and arresting "whispering voice," soothing style, gentle rhythmic phrasing, and intricate swing delivery. She became well known in the late 1930s for her swing performance of the Scottish traditional ballad Loch Lomond. The song became her signature piece and catapulted her career. During this period Sullivan performed as the main act at the Onyx Club on 52nd Street in New York City, alongside bassist John Kirby and his band. Sullivan and Kirby married in 1938 but were divorced three years later. In 1950, Sullivan married pianist Cliff Jackson. Excluding a ten-year break she took from show-business in 1957, Sullivan's career spanned four decades. Sullivan was also popular with jazz enthusiasts outside of the United States and she toured internationally several times.

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Maxine Sullivan papers, 1936-1987. (Sc MG 473). Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Sullivan 2007-11