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Article: Revella Hughes, jazz artist with Ellington, Waller
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 26, 1987
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NEW YORK (AP) Revella Hughes, a singer and instrumentalist who
performed with such jazz greats as Duke Ellington and Fats Waller,
has died at age 92.
Miss Hughes, who also performed on Broadway in the 1920s and
entertained troops overseas during World War II, died Saturday at
Lenox Hill Hospital, according to Williams Mortuary in Huntington,
W.Va., which is in charge of arrangements. She was born in
Huntington in 1895.
Miss Hughes, who played piano, violin and organ, studied music
in New York during the 1920s, recorded for the all-black Swan Record
Co. and performed jazz and swing on the CBS radio network.
In 1923, she was the choral director for the Broadway hit
"Shuffle Along," ...