this trombone player loved every woman in every version of this great group..thanks to Moms who led her own bands..told my Dad he could play lead tenor in her Paloma's swing band if he asked her to marry him..that worked out for me
Collective personnel for this band is : - Tiny Davis, Ray Carter, Mim Polak, Johnnie Mae Stansbury (tp) Ina Belle Byrd, Helen Jones, Jean Travis (tb) Vi Burnside, Ros Cron, Willie Mae Wong, Grace Bayron, Helen Saine (reeds) Johnnie Mae Rice (p) Marganot "Trump" Gibson (b) Pauline Braddy (d) Anne Mae Winburn (ldr,vcl) . The guitar player is probably Carline Ray. Thanks to Tom Lord and His Merry men and their diligent work.
There is a documentary called The Girls In The Band that features them :) It is an amazing documentary... You can only get it on DVD though. I bought it for myself for my Birthday 😄
thank you for posting. I just learned about Helen Jones Woods and am so moved to tears. I never knew she or this group existed until I accidentally saw a link in a NY Times obit. Yes, a movie needs to be made about these musicians and their adventures. Women musicians never get enough respect especially these brave women. May they all rest in peace.
From 9.00 to 11.05.....tenor sax played by Vi Burnside in a tour de force solo that stands up in the Swing Age. Forgotten now perhaps but Vi was a superb player, easily matching many of the male stars of the time.....sit back and listen!
Can't take my eyes off the Chinese-American woman on that bari sax!!! (Willie Mae Wong) To this day there aren't that many Asian American women in jazz and seeing her is just so cool!!!
Willie Mae Wong. Apparently her real name was Willie May Lee, which is how she is sometimes credited, but her stage name was changed to Wong to highlight her Chinese heritage. She became Willie May Scott after her marriage.
I am about to start an ethnography for a music history course I'm taking. I would encourage all who are knowledgeable about the women's contribution as instrumentalist and composers in the 1930s and 1940s.
I absolutely love this film. The ISwofR are incredible. This needs to be seen and heard. Truly good music, still has power to move me. The singer is fantastic and beautiful and what a terrific band... so much class!
I've read somewhere that Miss Consuella Carter started this group at the Piney Woods school in Mississippi. If there's any truth this, Miss Carter was a phenomenal band teacher. While in high school, I got the chance to see her marching band while she worked at Coahoma Aggie High School and Coahoma Junior College. They were very disciplined, and they sounded spectacular. Maybe someone should Do a documentary on the accomplishments of Miss Carter. I'm sure it would be received with great anticipation.
Thanks for sharing, they were one many black bands, both male and female, that got no recognition. I love to listen to Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
I'd always heard about them - my dad told me about them when I was a child - but until now I can't remember seeing any footage of them. Man, these women could REALLY lay it down - they were slammin' like nobody's business. Thank you for these wonderful clips.
Actually, one of their early mentors and arrangers besides Jesse Stone, was Eddie Durham - who groomed the original Count Basie band in swing and wrote those seminal hits such as Topsy, Swinging the Blues etc., as well - you'll note the same brass choreography with all the Orchestras Eddie Durham tutored (and composed for).
Es la primera vez que la veo y escucho son realmente estupendasm con trompetistas y saxofonistas envidiables. Ritmo y glamuor, estupenda banda. Gracias por compartir
Woooowww!!! I am so excited. I'm a musician too, but I never heard of these ladies. But boy am I found this. I was just scrolling through and this showed up!!! Perfect!!!!! (Laydee Mystro) 😃🎼🎹🎭
Excellent band, I wish I could transport back in time and attend one of their concerts. They are right up there with the socalled male "greats". Nowadays, check out the all female Jazz Avengers from Japan, the new hot thing in town!
So glad I learned about these ladies today. I happened upon a post about Trumpeter Tiny Davis and that lead me here. Such a joy watching this video, this is my 2nd time through. Thank you for posting.
@MusicandDancing4Ever: Thank you for uploading this amazing video! It's especially poignant right now (Oct 2020) as we've just heard of the death of Viola Smith (1912-2020), pioneering female swing drummer (www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/viola-smith-1912-2020-pioneering-female-swing-drummer/) at the astonishing age of 107. As you so rightly point out in your introductory remarks, jazz is still a male-dominated music genre, despite the efforts of Viola, Lorraine Page, Ada Leonard and so many others who tried to overcome the prejudices of sex and also race. Today, there are exceptions of course, and there's always been room for female vocalists, but female horn players, pianists and especially drummers, are still thin on the ground for no good reason. But there is hope for a better future ... the seeds of change have been planted and are beginning to blossom, not in the the USA but in a suburb of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It's a jazz school for youngsters from the age of 6 to 20 and it's producing some amazing new stars of the future, at least half of them girls. Well known artists such as Wynton Marsalis have gone to Barcelona to mentor and help nurture the kids ... they are that good. So who knows? Maybe the efforts of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm all those years ago, may yet bear fruit? th-cam.com/video/Uj5Q7w_HQSY/w-d-xo.html ... R (Australia)
now I want to know about each and every women in the band. Damn, we miss so much. They were so brave. sends tears down my eyes that they never got the recognition they deserved. That Helen Jones Woods had to quit her musical career due to racism. Are any of them still living?
TOday's headlines included this sad item Helen Jones Woods played trombone in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, when white bandmates wore blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing. She died of the coronavirus at 96.
Here's an article from the New Yorker magazine that tells some of the story of the band + one member's story: www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-improbable-life-of-helen-jones-woods-and-the-international-sweethearts-of-rhythm
Who the freak is this trumpet player at 13:15? I want to know her name so I can look up more of her stuff... Also, the trumpet battle at 16:10 made me smile...
Wow. That's really interesting. I'm an MA student and would love to talk to you about that; I'm going to write a paper on the band. I should be easy to find on Facebook - I made a post on 13th November about The International Sweethearts.
Beautiful women. When I read these comment it makes me wonder how little people know about American music. And how little they know that so much of it was the innovation of blacks. Everyone thinks that Blacks never prospered in America but black music is American music and is a gift that no other country has. Some comments act like that haven't a clue about anything that has happened in the past.
@sandra sanders: According to Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rock_and_roll#:~:text=(slang%2C%20euphemistic%2C%201920s%2C,play%20rock%20and%20roll%20music.) 'From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was a euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll"). As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, coined by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.' R (Australia)
+TONE B HURT Yes - Thanks, Tone B Hurt! I was trying to ID her. Willie Mae Wong on baritone to the left of Vi. Roz Cron on Alto, left, back row. Who is the other sax?
Wow! I am a music teacher and I just recently found out about this incredible band. Look at how hidden this has been kept from the public because they of many ethnic groups but mostly because they were WOMEN. Not even PBS has done a story on them. Let's do something about it. Any ideas? How can we get this out to the public? I am tired of seeing the face of Bing Crosby, a wife beater, all over every station during Christmas and yet these beauties are forgotten. Let' change that...
Start by adding this band to your curriculum. Then talk to your colleagues. The content can easily be included in history beginning with elementary students. Present the idea at your next faculty meeting. Bring it to your PTA... You get the idea. ;-)
What a great, swingin' band! All beautiful women, too. Thanks for the upload.
Rest in Peace, Helen Jones Woods. She was a trombone player in this band and she died recently of COVID-19
Her obituary brought me here today, I'm so glad to have learned about her life and the band albeit far too late. They were trailblazers!!
this trombone player loved every woman in every version of this great group..thanks to Moms who led her own bands..told my Dad he could play lead tenor in her Paloma's swing band if he asked her to marry him..that worked out for me
Collective personnel for this band is : - Tiny Davis, Ray Carter, Mim Polak, Johnnie Mae Stansbury (tp) Ina Belle Byrd, Helen Jones, Jean Travis (tb) Vi Burnside, Ros Cron, Willie Mae Wong, Grace Bayron, Helen Saine (reeds) Johnnie Mae Rice (p) Marganot "Trump" Gibson (b) Pauline Braddy (d) Anne Mae Winburn (ldr,vcl) . The guitar player is probably Carline Ray. Thanks to Tom Lord and His Merry men and their diligent work.
Thank you.
I thought the vocalist was Maxine Sullivan?
I'd love to see a movie based on their experiences. I'll bet there's quite a story there.
There is a documentary called The Girls In The Band that features them :) It is an amazing documentary... You can only get it on DVD though. I bought it for myself for my Birthday 😄
There's a documentary available to stream on Kanopy called "International Sweethearts of Rhythm " by Greta Schiller (1986).
Thanks, ladies, gotta find these two documentaries..
@@rolom3 You can rent/buy it digitally through Amazon Prime Video
A series based on the experiences of Folk on the chittlin circuit would or could give a real human face to the wickedness and trumph ....
Can't believe that I am just hearing about these women!
thank you for posting. I just learned about Helen Jones Woods and am so moved to tears. I never knew she or this group existed until I accidentally saw a link in a NY Times obit. Yes, a movie needs to be made about these musicians and their adventures. Women musicians never get enough respect especially these brave women. May they all rest in peace.
RIP Clora Bryant, a superb trumpet player who joined the Sweethearts in 1946 and was a featured soloist. Excellent obit in the NYT on 9-1-19.
From 9.00 to 11.05.....tenor sax played by Vi Burnside in a tour de force solo that stands up in the Swing Age. Forgotten now perhaps but Vi was a superb player, easily matching many of the male stars of the time.....sit back and listen!
You know!
@@RadiantJasmin makes me wonder if she is related to RL Burnside?
huge unknown space for women in art and music, that deserve attention. Especially in the history of Jazz. thank you for sharing!
Can't take my eyes off the Chinese-American woman on that bari sax!!! (Willie Mae Wong) To this day there aren't that many Asian American women in jazz and seeing her is just so cool!!!
Willie Mae Wong. Apparently her real name was Willie May Lee, which is how she is sometimes credited, but her stage name was changed to Wong to highlight her Chinese heritage. She became Willie May Scott after her marriage.
I am 52 years old and had no idea Great!!!!! orchestration and musicianship, compositions are way sound,
I am about to start an ethnography for a music history course I'm taking. I would encourage all who are knowledgeable about the women's contribution as instrumentalist and composers in the 1930s and 1940s.
"When my baby left me I sat on my knees n cried" The blues, so sad yet so comforting. These ladies were however oh so fabulous!💕
I absolutely love this film. The ISwofR are incredible. This needs to be seen and heard. Truly good music, still has power to move me. The singer is fantastic and beautiful and what a terrific band... so much class!
I'm just finding out about the women's bands in the Swing Age. These women swung with the best! Erasing them from the history was criminal.
Agree. Wish there was some way that History like this could get the attention ot MainStream Media. What a story.
Fabulous .... How have I missed this before now? ...... Thanks for posting.
in LOVE with Anna Mae Winburn . wow. WOW! and the piano player. and Ernestine "Tiny" Davis. and the rest of the Band too.
Gratulation an diese herrliche Band und ihre tollen Künstlerinnen ! Danke für dieses Video !
I've read somewhere that Miss Consuella Carter started this group at the Piney Woods school in Mississippi. If there's any truth this, Miss Carter was a phenomenal band teacher. While in high school, I got the chance to see her marching band while she worked at Coahoma Aggie High School and Coahoma Junior College. They were very disciplined, and they sounded spectacular. Maybe someone should Do a documentary on the accomplishments of Miss Carter. I'm sure it would be received with great anticipation.
The Piney Woods school did a documentary about the Sweethearts that you can find on TH-cam. A documentary about Miss Caaaarter is still up for grabs.
This is true.
Thanks for sharing, they were one many black bands, both male and female, that got no recognition. I love to listen to Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Fantastic, just when I thought I had heard it all. Learn something new. Blow girls!
wow. big huge bold sound! swingin! what talent.
Excellent - Thanks for the reminder of how good the ladies were
These ladies CAN swing!!!!!!!!!!
This is a slice of history! Priceless. Thanks for sharing.
I saw film of them at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, they are amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Can you IMAGE seeing them live! What a THRILL it must have been...
My god they were great,how do we not know about this?
I'd always heard about them - my dad told me about them when I was a child - but until now I can't remember seeing any footage of them.
Man, these women could REALLY lay it down - they were slammin' like nobody's business. Thank you for these wonderful clips.
This is going to make my month and more. The smile won’t wear off before long.
Just priceless and truly amazing 🤩
wasn't aware of this so many thanks.
Lv them. It's so great to think that it was a big band only with women at that time. Even today it's rare.
Who knows? Maybe someone who is Young who is interested in this kind of music will start a band like this again
Actually, one of their early mentors and arrangers besides Jesse Stone, was Eddie Durham - who groomed the original Count Basie band in swing and wrote those seminal hits such as Topsy, Swinging the Blues etc., as well - you'll note the same brass choreography with all the Orchestras Eddie Durham tutored (and composed for).
This is Awesome 🎶I Celebrate these Musicians❤🎤🎶💐Thank you for Sharimg
Maravillosa banda, gracias por compartir.
Love this " new music " ! New to me, never heard them before.
absolutely fabulous and so mighty mighty smooth
These beautiful women JAMMMMM!!!
Oh I love them! They are fabulous! Thanks for posting this as I had never heard of these great women before.
My new favorite big band!
same here - and with a million times more CLEAN sexiness than Beyonce.
Es la primera vez que la veo y escucho son realmente estupendasm con trompetistas y saxofonistas envidiables. Ritmo y glamuor, estupenda banda. Gracias por compartir
Stupendous!
Thank you for this, would also love to see a movie about them
great music.
Woooowww!!! I am so excited. I'm a musician too, but I never heard of these ladies. But boy am I found this. I was just scrolling through and this showed up!!! Perfect!!!!! (Laydee Mystro) 😃🎼🎹🎭
Lindíssimas apresentações. Obrigado pelo compartilhamento!
The should be in the International Jazz HOF as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Yes, I completely agree.
But, c'mon. It's not Rock and Roll. Of course they let country singers in these days.
I have never seen anything like this before! Thank you for posting this video. Cheers!
Vi is da bomb! She is wearing that sax out!
Excellent band, I wish I could transport back in time and attend one of their concerts. They are right up there with the socalled male "greats". Nowadays, check out the all female Jazz Avengers from Japan, the new hot thing in town!
"It DOES Mean a Thing, Because They DO GotThat Swing!" "How About That Jive" is gonna keep me smiling for a week!
So glad I learned about these ladies today. I happened upon a post about Trumpeter Tiny Davis and that lead me here. Such a joy watching this video, this is my 2nd time through. Thank you for posting.
these gals are great players and were trail blazers for women
@MusicandDancing4Ever: Thank you for uploading this amazing video! It's especially poignant right now (Oct 2020) as we've just heard of the death of Viola Smith (1912-2020), pioneering female swing drummer (www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/viola-smith-1912-2020-pioneering-female-swing-drummer/) at the astonishing age of 107. As you so rightly point out in your introductory remarks, jazz is still a male-dominated music genre, despite the efforts of Viola, Lorraine Page, Ada Leonard and so many others who tried to overcome the prejudices of sex and also race. Today, there are exceptions of course, and there's always been room for female vocalists, but female horn players, pianists and especially drummers, are still thin on the ground for no good reason. But there is hope for a better future ... the seeds of change have been planted and are beginning to blossom, not in the the USA but in a suburb of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It's a jazz school for youngsters from the age of 6 to 20 and it's producing some amazing new stars of the future, at least half of them girls. Well known artists such as Wynton Marsalis have gone to Barcelona to mentor and help nurture the kids ... they are that good. So who knows? Maybe the efforts of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm all those years ago, may yet bear fruit? th-cam.com/video/Uj5Q7w_HQSY/w-d-xo.html ... R (Australia)
I thank American Legacy Magazine for their awareness, and now my appreciation, of this "unknown" jazz band. John J. Wilson
Thanks for sharing this
Thank you for the education
Just excellent !
Wow they are Good, I got to more research on them incredible!!!!
I read about them on a test its was truly inspiring!
Brittani Smith same omggg
So very glad this is feature! She was unknown to me but NOW I am going to play more of her music
The Baritone Saxophone player is superb.
These are Some Bad Sisters 🎶🎶❤️💜
Excellent. Thanks for sharing this!
Amazing
wow thaks for sharing. wow
Fantastic post ! ! Major
Wow! I wish I learned about this in school. smh Thank you for sharing this.
W. Ward I did
Veryyyyyy Gooood !!!!
now I want to know about each and every women in the band. Damn, we miss so much. They were so brave. sends tears down my eyes that they never got the recognition they deserved. That Helen Jones Woods had to quit her musical career due to racism. Are any of them still living?
How am I just learning about these women?! Went down a Wiki-hole that started with the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans
a wikidive brought me here as well lmao
TOday's headlines included this sad item Helen Jones Woods played trombone in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, when white bandmates wore blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing. She died of the coronavirus at 96.
Miss Woods' NY Times obit brought me here.
This is the coolest thing.
Sweety, lovely, musical women!!!
Love it!!
I say best jazz band period !
THANK YOU!!!!
Wow! I can't believe I'd never heard of these women till now! Proof you WILL find the truth if you go looking for it!
Here's an article from the New Yorker magazine that tells some of the story of the band + one member's story: www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-improbable-life-of-helen-jones-woods-and-the-international-sweethearts-of-rhythm
Thanks for the write up.
Merci ! Super intéressant et émouvant !
Who the freak is this trumpet player at 13:15? I want to know her name so I can look up more of her stuff...
Also, the trumpet battle at 16:10 made me smile...
Ernestine "Tiny" Davis
Their very good !
The song after Jump children is called Vi Vigor
+100 Anna Mae was my great aunt Judy's (Julia Mae) sister. Judy married my great uncle Percy after having divorced Frank Perkins, Red Perkins’ son.
Wow. That's really interesting. I'm an MA student and would love to talk to you about that; I'm going to write a paper on the band. I should be easy to find on Facebook - I made a post on 13th November about The International Sweethearts.
Tiny ALMOST sounds like Louis Armstrong on the horn :).....loving this ;)....
Great!
Beautiful women. When I read these comment it makes me wonder how little people know about American music. And how little they know that so much of it was the innovation of blacks. Everyone thinks that Blacks never prospered in America but black music is American music and is a gift that no other country has. Some comments act like that haven't a clue about anything that has happened in the past.
Greatests.
In the third song she mentions the phrase rock and roll is this the earliest mention of this in a song?
@sandra sanders: According to Wiktionary (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rock_and_roll#:~:text=(slang%2C%20euphemistic%2C%201920s%2C,play%20rock%20and%20roll%20music.)
'From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was a euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, coined by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.'
R (Australia)
God bless America!
Que beleza!
Em vez de academia...orquestra mania! Que beleza!
I LOVE THIS!!!!I ❤ 😍
Brilliant. Does anyone know when these recordings were made? (Sounds like mid/late '40s)
Miss Myrtle Young is second tenor chair next to main soloist Viola Burnside
Is she on Vi Burnside left or right? Is Ms. Young still alive.
MusicandDancing4Ever Ms Young passed in 2010. She was about 90 years of age. Vi is the featured tenor, M.Y. sits too her right
+TONE B HURT Yes - Thanks, Tone B Hurt! I was trying to ID her. Willie Mae Wong on baritone to the left of Vi. Roz Cron on Alto, left, back row. Who is the other sax?
Swing, my sisters! Swing! 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Tiny Davis, you trumpeter, is that you in the back, sister?! 🎺
#SwingSwingSwing #InternationalSweetheartsOfRhythm
Wow! I am a music teacher and I just recently found out about this incredible band. Look at how hidden this has been kept from the public because they of many ethnic groups but mostly because they were WOMEN. Not even PBS has done a story on them. Let's do something about it. Any ideas? How can we get this out to the public? I am tired of seeing the face of Bing Crosby, a wife beater, all over every station during Christmas and yet these beauties are forgotten. Let' change that...
belinda Have you seen "The Girls in the Band" by Judy Chawkin. It's an amazing and very illustrative documentary of jazz, swing and bebop era
Beginning around 3:20 you can listen to the leader, vocalist Anna Mae Winburn, who sang with several bands before and after this.
It wouldn't fit the modern feminist or PC narrative.
Right on sister!
Start by adding this band to your curriculum. Then talk to your colleagues. The content can easily be included in history beginning with elementary students. Present the idea at your next faculty meeting. Bring it to your PTA... You get the idea. ;-)
This is interesting. I didn't know about this Band...
Happy International Women's Day!
How did i not know there were all female big bands? Unbelievably under-represented, it's practically a crime.
I wish they had gotten to live long enough to see and hear today's Shake 'Em Up azz Band -- different style, but I think they would be proud.
Cuánto talento
I have a Dream!
Mother of Cathy Hughes of Radio One and TVOne. Black History. Kurt Evans West Hollywood, Ca.
Which player is her mother?
@@RadiantJasmin Helen Jones Woods was Cathy Hughes' mom.