Dunham Jazz & Jubilee Singers
Dunham Jazz & Jubilee Singers
Top Songs
| 1 | Honey Turn Your Damper Down - A "Mama" Blues | ||
| 2 | Angel Child | ||
| 3 | You Can Tell the World | ||
| 4 | Do What the Lord Say Do | ||
| 5 | I Dreamed of the Judgement Morning |
Albums
Apr 2015 • 20 songs
Aug 2005 • 22 songs
About
Biography
Formed in Birmingham, Alabama, the Dunham Jazz & Jubilee Singers were trained and led by Charles Alfred "Son" Dunham, a skilled vocalist, director, and arranger who was born in Selma in 1890 and moved to Westfield near Birmingham in 1920. Working with bass vocalist Leon Patrick, Dunham exerted a major influence on the development of quartet singing throughout the region during the 1920s. He is remembered as a fine lead singer with a broad range who was capable of demonstrating all of the parts in order to coordinate and instruct other vocalists. Dunham and Patrick were respons...