Альбомы исполнителя
Postwar Period Collection
2022 · сборник
My Tiger Rag - The Early Years
2021 · альбом
Harlem on My Mind! - The Blues of Ethel Waters
2020 · альбом
Golden Selection (Remastered)
2019 · альбом
Favorite Blues of All Time
2019 · альбом
100 Super Best
2018 · альбом
Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 3
2018 · альбом
Am I Blue
2017 · альбом
Stormy Weather
2017 · альбом
Break City
2015 · альбом
Sweet Thing
2015 · альбом
Work from Nine
2015 · альбом
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
2014 · альбом
Cabin in the Sky (Original Recordings 1938 - 1940)
2014 · альбом
Down Home Blues (Original Recordings 1920 - 1921)
2014 · альбом
Jeepers Creepers (Original Recordings 1935 - 1936)
2014 · альбом
Moonglow (Original Recordings 1934)
2014 · альбом
Some of These Days (Original Recordings 1929 -1930)
2014 · альбом
Sweet Georgia Brown (Original Recordings 1923 - 25)
2014 · альбом
Sweet Man Blues (Original Recordings 1921 - 22)
2014 · альбом
Georgia On My Mind
2012 · альбом
Just Got a Letter!
2011 · альбом
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Биография
Ethel Waters had a long and varied career, and was one of the first true jazz singers to record. Defying racism with her talent and bravery, Waters became a stage and movie star in the 1930s and '40s without leaving the U.S. She grew up near Philadelphia and, unlike many of her contemporaries, developed a clear and easily understandable diction. Originally classified as a blues singer (and she could sing the blues almost on the level of a Bessie Smith), Waters' jazz-oriented recordings of 1921-1928 swung before that term was even coined. A star early on at theaters and nightclubs, Waters introduced such songs as "Dinah," "Am I Blue" (in a 1929 movie), and "Stormy Weather." She made a smooth transition from jazz singer of the 1920s to a pop music star of the '30s, and she was a strong influence on many vocalists including Mildred Bailey, Lee Wiley, and Connee Boswell. Waters spent the latter half of the 1930s touring with a group headed by her husband-trumpeter Eddie Mallory, and appeared on Broadway (Mamba's Daughter in 1939) and in the 1943 film Cabin in the Sky; in the latter she introduced "Taking a Chance on Love," "Good for Nothing Joe," and the title cut. In later years Waters was seen in nonmusical dramatic roles, and after 1960 she mostly confined her performances to religious work for the evangelist Billy Graham. The European Classics label has reissued all of Ethel Waters' prime recordings and they still sound fresh and lively today. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi