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Feb 24, 2022 · Feb. 24, 2022 10:39 AM PT. Few artists besides expert jazz and blues singer Ernie Andrews, who died Monday at 94, could claim to owe their big break to the iconic film star Betty Grable, and...
Andrews played a leading part in the documentary film, Blues for Central Avenue. [4] Andrews died on February 21, 2022, at the age of 94. [5] Discography. As leader. In the Dark (GNP, 1957) The Importance of Being Ernest (GNP, 1959) Live Session! Cannonball Adderley with Ernie Andrews ( Capitol, 1965)
Feb 25, 2022 · Andrews was a mainstay at clubs along Central Ave. in its heyday as the center of L.A.'s jazz scene and was discovered there at the legendary Lincoln Theatre. In a 2008 interview with our...
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The Credits ERNIE ANDREWS: BLUES FOR CENTRAL AVENUE, produced and directed by Lois Shelton. With Ernie Andrews, Dolores Andrews, Buddy Collette, Harry (Sweets) Edison and others....
Feb 28, 2022 · In the ‘60s and ‘70s, he worked with bands led by Frank Capp and Nat Pierce and in the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. In the mid-‘80s, he was the subject of a documentary, Ernie Andrews: Blues for Central Avenue, directed by Lois Shelton. It appeared on public television and in some movie theaters.
Mar 1, 2022 · In Lois Shelton’s 1986 documentary, Ernie Andrews: Blues For Central Avenue, he remarked: “All I’ve ever known in life is singing. I just sing and sing and sing and sing.”. Warm, smooth yet tough-voiced singer of ballads, jazz and R&B who braved the colour bar as a member of the Harry James band.
Feb 24, 2022 · I just sing and sing and sing and sing,” Andrews said in “Blues for Central Avenue," a 1986 documentary on the historic Los Angeles music district and his place in it.
