HALL, ADELAIDE

HALL, ADELAIDE. Jazz singer (20 October 1910 in New York, New York). Her father was a school music teacher. She began her professional career as a singer (soprano) in the Eubie Blake/ Noble Sissle musical Shuffle Along (1921). During the 1920s-30s she performed in several shows, among them, Runnin' Wild (1923), Chocolate Kiddies (1925, including the tour in Europe), Desires of 1927, Blackbirds of 1928 (in which she took over the role of the late Florence Mills ), and Brown Buddies...