Jazz singer Joya Sherrill, on tour with Benny Goodman in 1962, sits under a hair dryer with with women in Russia. Ms. Sherrill also performed with Duke Ellington and was one of the first African Americans to host a children’s television show. She died in 2010 at the age of 85. Photo via LIFE magazine.
Duke Ellington with (r to l) my aunt Margaret Tynes and Joya Sherrill rehearsing for the television version of Ellington’s jazz suite A Drum is a Woman. The one-hour television special aired on CBS’s “U.S. Steel Hour” on May 8, 1957. Photo (obviously) via Getty Images.
Duke Ellington and his singers Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis and Maria Ellington (no relation - later Mrs. Nat King Cole, mother of Natalie and niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown).
Duke Ellington’s “Rhythm Pum Te Dum” from his jazz suite, “A Drum Is a Woman.” This track features my aunt Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, Ozzie Bailey and Mr. Ellington himself. “A Drum Is a Woman” was turned into a 1957 CBS television special with the aforementioned artists and dancers Carmen de Lavallade and Talley Beatty.
Duke Ellington with (r to l) Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill and Ozzie Bailey in a 1957 promotional photo for the television version of A Drum is a Woman.
Jazz singer Joya Sherrill, on tour with Benny Goodman in 1962, sits under a hair dryer with with women in Russia.
Photo via LIFE
