| LC control no. | n 85068362 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Austin, Lovie |
| Variant(s) | Calhoun, Cora |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Nashville (Tenn.) Knoxville (Tenn.) Chicago (Ill.) |
| Birth date | 1887-09-19 |
| Death date | 1972-07-10 |
| Place of birth | Chattanooga (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Affiliation | Roger Williams University (Nashville, Tenn.) Knoxville College. Music Department Paramount (Sound recording label) Blues Serenaders |
| Profession or occupation | Bandleader Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Jazz musicians |
| Found in | Cox, I. Ida Cox [SR] p1973- : v. 1, container (Lovie Austin, pianist and band leader) Alberta Hunter with Lovie Austin & her Blues Serenaders [SR] 1961?: container (Lovie Austin, piano; born Cora Calhoun, Sept. 19, 1887, Chattanooga, Tenn.) Santelli, R. Big book of blues, 2001 (Austin, Lovie; b. Cora Calhoun, Sept. 19, 1887, Chattanooga, Tenn., d. July 10, 1972, Chicago; bandleader, session musician, composer, and arranger) African American National Biography, accessed December 6, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Austin, Lovie; Cora Calhoun; composer, arranger, jazz musician; born 19 September 1887 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States; studied music theory and piano at Roger Williams University in Nashville and Knoxville College in Knoxville; her career was launched when she began touring the vaudeville circuit (1912); traveled with Irving Miller's Blue Babies revue; was director of The Sunflower Girls Revue, part of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA) (1920); settled in Chicago (1920s); worked as house pianist for Paramount Records; recorded under her own name, Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders; worked as musical director for the Monogram Theater, the Gem Theater, and the Joy Theater, Chicago; worked as a security inspector at a naval defense plant during World War II; was pianist for the Penthouse Studios at the Jimmy Payne School of Dance in Chicago (1950); recorded with Hill for Capitol Records (1946) and with Hunter for Riverside Records (1961); her longest recording association was with the Paramount label; retired (1962); died 10 July 1972 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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