PORTER SHIPP, OLIVIA SOPHIE L'ANGE

PORTER SHIPP, OLIVIA SOPHIE L'ANGE. Dance-band bassist (17 May 1880 in New Orleans, Louisiana; 18 June 1980 in New York, New York). As a child she taught herself to play on an old pump organ acquired by her family and played for a church choir. At the beginning of the twentieth century she went to New York, where her sister May had settled earlier. There she found employment in vaudeville shows and began to play cello, studying with various teachers,...