Fact #31273
When:
Short story:
Cora Calhoun is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Under the name
Lovie Austin, she will find fame as a jazz-blues bandleader, session musician, composer and arranger in the 1920s. Her piano playing will grace
recordings by Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Ethel
Waters, Alberta Hunter and
others. She will also work with Louis
Armstrong, Kid Ory and
Johnny
Dodds.
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