New Orleans Willie Jackson

b. USA. Jackson sang comic renditions of opera music in ‘blackface’ at a fresh Orleans snow cream parlour. His middle-20s recordings are flexible and vaudevillian, with solid dance numbers, dual entendres, and funny vignettes of Darktown existence, which range from the chapel to politics as well as the judiciary. He also sang several traditionally centered blues, covered modern hits such as for example ‘Kansas Town Blues’, and produced the first documenting of ‘T.B. Blues’, generally connected with Victoria Spivey.