Rosetta Howard

Rosetta Howard may also be regarded as a vintage blues vocalist but she actually came up throughout a slightly later on era. Very little is well known about her existence. Howard began performing expertly in 1932 and she worked well in Chicago and down the road New York through the entire 1930s using the Harlem Hamfats and separately with Plant Morand and Odell Rand. During 1937-39 and 1947, she documented 40 selections, showing herself to be always a versatile singer in a position to bridge the space between traditional blues and golf swing. Her 1937-38 recordings had been using the Harlem Hamfats and had been reissued on two Record CDs. A Compact disc put out from the Austrian RST label offers most of her later on recordings. Both 1939 dates certainly are a program using the Harlem Blues Serenaders (which include Charlie Shavers, Buster Bailey and Lil Armstrong) and something having a quintet that has Henry “Crimson” Allen and Barney Bigard. Howard performed with a number of mostly-obscure music artists in Chicago during 1940-46 (apart from clarinetist Jimmie Noone) and in 1947 was presented on 12 interesting recordings with Chicago blues celebrities of the time like the Big Three (with bassist Willie Dixon) and guitarist Big Expenses Broonzy. But although she noises quite in the home with this “contemporary” establishing, the records didn’t sell (some weren’t issued at that time) and Rosetta Howard by no means recorded once again. She worked well in the 1950s within the spiritual field with Thomas Dorsey in the Pilgrim Baptist Chapel in Chicago and slipped aside into obscurity. Luckily most of her recordings are available.