Eddie Jefferson practicing before a concert, New York City, 1976.
Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his main influence was Leo Watson. Perhaps Jefferson's best-known song is "Moody's Mood for Love" which was recorded in 1952, though two years later a recording by King Pleasure catapulted the contrafact into wide popularity
b. August 3, 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
d. May 9, 1979 in Detroit, Michigan.
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