RUSHING, JAMES ANDREW (JIMMY
). Jazz-blues singer ( in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: his father played trumpet, his mother sang, and an uncle, Wesley Manning, played piano. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Oklahoma City and at Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio. In 1924 he went to Los Angeles, California, where he found employment as a singing-pianist in local nightclubs. During the...