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Rushing died of leukemia on June 8, 1972, at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City, and was buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. [3] Until weeks before his death, he was singing on weekends at the Half Note Club in Manhattan.
James Andrew Rushing (Oklahoma City, 26 de agosto de 1903 - 8 de junio de 1972) (conocido como Jimmy Rushing) fue un cantante y pianista de blues y jazz estadounidense, especialmente reconocido por su trabajo en la orquesta de Count Basie entre 1935 y 1948.
9 de jun. de 1972 · Jimmy Rushing, the rotund blues singer who came out of Kansas City with the Count Basie Orchestra in, 1936, died yesterday morning after a brief illness. He was 68 sears old and lived at 88‐35...
4 de jun. de 2024 · Died: June 8, 1972, New York, New York (aged 68) Jimmy Rushing (born August 26, 1903?, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.—died June 8, 1972, New York, New York) was an American blues and jazz singer who was best known for performing with the Count Basie Orchestra.
12 de ene. de 2021 · Rushing’s recording career spanned a period of rapid change in music. When Rushing began his solo career, big bands were dying, bebop was upon us and hard bop was stirring. At the time of his first recordings for Vanguard in 1955, it was the birth of rock ‘n roll with Elvis, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis beginning their recording careers.
21 de ene. de 2007 · Rushing died of leukemia on June 8, 1972, in New York City. His profound impact on African American popular music inspired B. B. King to call him the Henry Ford of the Blues, “a real inventor.”
10 de jul. de 2024 · In 1935 Bennie Moten died, and Bill Basie formed his own band with many of the musicians from Moten’s band, Jimmy Rushing was the singer. The band became the Barons of Rhythm, which had their own way of playing, their own beat, in what was to be “Kansas City Swing”, and nobody did it better.
