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Fact #179283

When:

23061984

Short story:

Aida Ward who found success as a jazz singer in the 1920s and 1930s in New York, on Broadway and at The Cotton Club in Harlem, dies aged 84 of a respiratory ailment at Howard University Hospital, Washington DC, USA. At the Cotton Club she had been a featured singer with the orchestras of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.