Eddie Jefferson

Not to be confused with Eddie Jefferson (baseball).

Eddie Jefferson
Jefferson at Half Moon Bay, California, October 10, 1978
Background information
Born(1918-08-03)August 3, 1918
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedMay 9, 1979(1979-05-09) (aged 60)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
InstrumentVocals
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Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his main influence was Leo Watson. Perhaps Jefferson's best-known song is "Moody's Mood for Love" which was recorded in 1952 by King Pleasure and catapulted the contrafact into wide popularity (King Pleasure even cites Jefferson as a personal influence). Jefferson's recordings of Charlie Parker's "Parker's Mood" and Horace Silver's "Filthy McNasty" were also hits.

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