Songs related to the seasons are among my favorite
things. Since winter will soon be here,
I’m spotlighting the wintry song “Moonlight in Vermont” in this post. From a number of videos of individual jazz
singers performing "Moonlight in Vermont," I chose a video featuring American jazz and blues singer
Ernestine Anderson. By the way,
Anderson’s birthday is this month.
Ernestine Anderson was born on November 11, 1928, in Houston,
Texas. When she was 16, her family
relocated to Seattle, Washington. She moved
to New York and later lived in London, England, in order to advance her career. Anderson eventually returned to and settled
in Seattle. There is much information
about her on the Internet and elsewhere.
Ernestine Anderson was included in the Smithsonian
Institution’s CD anthology The Jazz Singers, and she was one of 75 women
honored in the book I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed
America, by Brian Lanker.
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