{"id":7406,"date":"2016-03-12T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T20:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2016-03-12T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T20:45:25","slug":"ernestine-anderson-1928-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/03\/ernestine-anderson-1928-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernestine Anderson, 1928-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ernestine-Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"Ernestine Anderson\" width=\"210\" height=\"202\" \/>Ernestine Anderson died on Thursday at the age of 87 at a retirement home in Seattle. The singer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career of more than six decades began in that city when she was a teenager. She went on to be featured with the big bands of Johnny Otis and Lionel Hampton, record the classic album <em>Hot Cargo<\/em> and receive Grammy nominations and rave reviews for recordings she made after a comeback in the 1970s. For an extensive account of Ms. Anderson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life, see Paul deBarros\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/obituaries\/jazz-great-ernestine-anderson-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Seattle Times<\/em><\/a>. His piece contains video of a 1978 performance in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, as she was approaching her 80th birthday, I wrote of an Anderson concert\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Looking frail, she made her way slowly and uncertainly on stage, sat on a chair, took a while to get ready, and gave one of the great concerts of her life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> To read the entire account, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/10\/the_seasons_fall_festival_seco.html\" target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Wilke is replacing his scheduled <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em> broadcast on Sunday with a tribute to Ms. Anderson. The program airs at 2 PM PDT and streams at kplu.org. Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke exclusively for 88.5 KPLU and <a href=\"http:\/\/kplu.org\" target=\"_blank\">kplu.org<\/a>. After broadcast, it may be streamed at <a href=\"http:\/\/jazznw.org\" target=\"_blank\">jazznw.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steen,&#8221; as she was known to many of her friends, objected to the title <em>Hot Cargo<\/em> that the producers gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hot-Cargo-Ernestine-Anderson\/dp\/B0013A0JRU\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20\" target=\"_blank\">her Swedish album<\/a> <em>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Time For Ernestine<\/em> when it was reissued in the United States in 1958. Title considerations aside, it was one of the triumphs of her career. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a track.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sK3nNMRl_wE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ernestine Anderson, RIP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernestine Anderson died on Thursday at the age of 87 at a retirement home in Seattle. The singer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career of more than six decades began in that city when she was a teenager. She went on to be featured with the big bands of Johnny Otis and Lionel Hampton, record the classic album Hot Cargo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}