#albertahunter

[modern-music-through-the-ages]

Alberta Hunter, right (1920s?)

Alberta Hunter was 87 when she recorded her last album. That was in 1983. Her first 78 came out in 1921, more than sixty years earlier.

Hunter hadn't planned on making any more records but she had been forced out of nursing - which she adored - following mandatory retirement at the age of 70. What the authorities didn't know that Hunter was already 82, having lied about her age after enrolling on a three-year nursing course when she was almost 60.

Hunter's remarkable musical journey began in 1911, singing in a Chicago bordello in her mid-to-late teens. She had run away/relocated with her mother (depending on who you believe) to escape a gruelling life in Memphis four to five years earlier. Either way, her mother - with whom she remained close - joined her soon after.

Alberta progressed to bars and clubs, ultimately landing a spot and a road to stardom in the storied Dreamland Cafe, which also hosted King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (including Louis Armstrong and soon-to-be friend Lil Hardin).

Over the following decades, the Sweetheart of Dreamland ended up on stage in Broadway, London and Paris as well as in New York and London recording studios. She also wrote songs, notably including Downhearted Blues, which Bessie Smith turned into a hit.

Hunter finally stepped out of the limelight (or so she thought) after her mother died in 1957. Little did she know that a musical renaissance, and even greater fame, were yet to come.

[abwwia]

Alberta Hunter #bornonthisday (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) was an American jazz and blues singer and songwriter from the early 1920s to the late 1950s.

(...) She peeled potatoes by day and hounded club owners by night, determined to land a singing job. Her persistence paid off, and Hunter began a climb from some of the city's lowest dives to a headlining job at its most prestigious venue for black entertainers, the Dreamland ballroom. She had a five-year association with the Dreamland, beginning in 1917, and her salary rose to $35 a week.

She first toured Europe in 1917, performing in Paris and London. The Europeans treated her as an artist, showing her respect and even reverence, which made a great impression on her. (...)

Hunter said that when her mother died in 1957, because they had been partners and were so close, the appeal of performing ended for her. She reduced her age, "invented" a high school diploma, and enrolled in nursing school, embarking on a career in health care, in which she worked for 20 years. (...)

After twenty years of working as a nurse, Hunter resumed her singing career in 1977. via Wikipedia

#AlbertaHunter #PalianShow #musicherstory #jazzherstory #musicbywomen #herstory #womeninmusic #blackherstory

[pearlistrippin]

🎙🎼CHASIN' DEM BLUES🎵🎙 Tech Week🤩. #ChasinDemBlues on deck again. Here we grow again🎭 Day 12😍 Nutritional herbal fasting and wow!!! Gratitude... Love and appreciate you so much, Unc👑💞🖤💞👑 https://www.milwaukeerep.com/Tickets--Events/201920-Season/Chasin-Dem-Blues-Untold-Story-of-Paramount-Records/ #Family #2020Memoirs #Theatre #Blues #Winter #MaRainey #AlbertaHunter #BlindLemonJefferson https://www.instagram.com/p/B7PjWuLp8uz/?igshid=1csd33vabhs1k

[aceofspadespdx]

October Vinyl Odyssey, Day 13 Bonus: Classic Alberta Hunter. Not having a good day today mentally, emotionally and physically. So what do I do? Listen to the Blues. This is Alberta Hunter, who made the most incredible comeback in the late 1970s. These were previously unissued tracks from the 1930s, and all are excellent. #blues #bluesmusic #jazz #jazzmusic #albertahunter #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #vinylcollector (at Beaverton, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGTiXQIMQdd/?igshid=1h6p3hqk7aot4

[david-dasharath-kalal]

Gandhi Patinkin #Evita #Homeland Gandhi Newton #Westworld My Man is Such a Gandhi Man #albertahunter @sacsix #postnohate (at SoHo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7mhP8gt2E/?igshid=ezxuubz9jhlv

[idealandia]

GRAMMY Nominee Catherine Russell unveils new digital single. Beautiful song version of “You Reap Just What You Sow” a previously unreleased track. All proceeds to benefit @jazzfoundationofamerica Covid-19 Musicians’ Emergency Fund: fighting to support musicians in need. #DoingGood The lyrics (written by the great Blues and Jazz Diva, #AlbertaHunter) contain a universal message that resonates throughout the ages.
 #catherinerussell #covid19fund #jazzfoundationofamerica Read feature story on Jazz Times Magazine [  #IdeaTherapy ] Evolving with you! #CoCreativity #MarketingTriage: becoming more supple! #IDEAcatalyst sharing #CultureShifting facts | #IdeaTherapy ‪#TrekkerATLAS #Newness #GloCal #Message #catherinerussellvocalist #grammynominee #jazztimesmagazine #jazztimesmag #jazztimes #jazzmusic #jazz #youreapwhatyousow #youreapjustwhatyousow (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYzRJ0D2O2/?igshid=11zwp81ey6rls

[djactionslacks]

#AlbertaHunter was a true pioneer of American music and she was also nobody's fool. She was born in Memphis on this day 124 years ago! Wooo! . Hunter left Memphis for Chicago to pursue a singing career in her early teens. She started signing in brothels in the 1910s, worked her way up to bars & clubs, & eventually to phonographs in 1921. She then made her way to the stage as musical performer playing opposite Paul Robeson in Show Boat in 1928. . But I think what Alberta Hunter is most remembered for is her epic comeback at age 82 after 20 years outside of the music biz working in health care. And of course, she was famously queer https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvt9gMzgj82/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=39odtl1xlxb6

[foodafield]

Big Bear from last May. The episode is up on the website. Link in bio. Just go to the ‘episodes’ page. Less than the price of a latte. Lots of free stuff there too, especially when you sign up for the newsletter on the ‘home’ page. Monthly newsletter issues that contain free episodes and exclusive offers. Hope to hear from you there. . . #foodafieldpodcast #bearhunting #albertahunting #spotandstalk #bearmeat (at Alberta, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY-aRC4LYep/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ceaserlakeoutfitters]

Just scrolling through pictures from this year on my phone and kept going back to this great buck that @big_tine_adventures put me on this past November!! Such a great old character buck and following pic shows how big his body was, 390 lbs!! Thanks again Blake and Fharon! #bigtineadventures #muledeer #muledeercrazy #bigbuck #bigbucks #trophybuck #bigtine #muledeerfoundation #albertahunting #deerhunting #deer #muleycrazy #ceaserlakeoutfitters #deerhunter #sickforit #guidelife #sitkagear #safari #safariclub #safariclubinternational (at Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B68kYPSFNOe/?igshid=jl4h7nn5o4om

[travellerswonder]

It is always a good to be at the nature falls. . #travellerswonder #sunwaptafalls #jaspernationalpark #albertacanada #albertatourism #explorealberta #albertahunting #albertaparks #travelalberta #dailyviewalberta #albertafalls #albertaphotography #albertaoutdoors #albertastreet #alberta #canadatravel #instatravel (at Sunwapta Falls, Jasper National Park, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/BubvfvFhxRV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ratgjv195tah

[the13thcraft]

Ducks n Bucks Like Ying and Yang They just go together Note: signs are “always available” I may not have the current one you want in stock at times But I can always whip one off with enough notice depending on how busy things are with shipping worldwide Pricing varies with signs #ducksandbucks #greatoutdoors #alberta #albertahunting #yeg #yeggers #makersgonnamake #buildsomething #madeinedmonton #yegmaker #780 #587 #hunting #ducks #bucks (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btrqn2_gojk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=me2bnh7fcfis

[aspringwind]

Grandpa Boogies To The Darktown Strutters Ball.

[fourwoodlaundry-blog]

🎙🎺“Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.”🎷#albertahunter (at Fourwood Laundry)

[pearlistrippin]

‘Chasin’ Dem Blues’ Is Joyous Fun Four great performers relive the era when a Grafton WI company was a leader in blues music. By Dominique Paul Noth "I’d taken to worrying a bit about every new, heavily promoted, usually six-week-long offering at the Milwaukee Rep’s Stackner Cabaret. It’s a bit formulaic. ...Chasin’ Dem Blues through March 22 made me stop worrying. Formula? Sure, but the Rep knows the possibilities of this better than I do and it works mightily to keep originality at the forefront of its choice of talents." See you there😃 https://www.milwaukeerep.com/Tickets--Events/201920-Season/Chasin-Dem-Blues-Untold-Story-of-Paramount-Records/ #UMTLive #ChasinDemBlues @ the #MilwaukeeRep Celebrating the lives of: #SonHouse #SkipJames #MaRainey #AlbertaHunter #CharliePatton #PapaJackson #BlindLemonJefferson #BlindWillieMcTell #ParamountRecords #Blues #TheBirthOfAmericanCulture #AmericanCulture (at Milwaukee Repertory Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/B71wiX1JdAs/?igshid=9jet43rhejqj

[jcsmallwood-blog]

Tonight’s listening includes Amtrak Blues from blues legend Alberta Hunter. Released when the artist was 85 years old, it contains such classics as “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out” and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”. #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcollectionpost #igvinylclub #catsofinstagram #catsandvinyl #albertahunter #amtrakblues #nowspinning

[hdunfordwood]

These drawings are of the great Alberta Hunter aged 83 singing in the Cookery, Greenwich Village in late spring 1978 from my Sketchbook #9. #shetchbook #drawing #bluessinger #blues #thecookery #cookery #singer #singing #albertahunter #printstudio #blacksinger #blackandwhite #penandink #nightclub #bluesbar #nyc #ladysingsthenlues #greenwichvillage