BARRETT, EMMA (SWEET EMMA, THE BELL GAL
). Jazz pianist ( in New Orleans, Louisiana). She began playing professionally about 1923 and thereafter played with leading bands of New Orleans, including
Oscar (Papa
) Celestin
,
William (Bebé
) Ridgley
,
George McCullum
,
Sidney Desvigne
, and
Armand Piron
, among others. With the revival of public interest in traditional jazz during the 1960s, her career blossomed; she began to record extensively,...
BARRETT, EMMA
(*1898)> JAZZ PIANIST