Mildred Bailey - The Queen Of Swing: All The Hits And More 1929-47Mildred Bailey The Queen Of Swing: All The Hits And More 1929 47 Mildred Bailey was a jazz singer of Native American descent who was known variously as "The Queen Of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs Swing", and who enjoyed a successful career during the 1930s and '40s, having more than 40 hits in her own name and as a band singer with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra, and the orchestras of Paul Whiteman, The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and

talking us through his personal choices as though he's sitting cross-legged on the carpet going through records with you in his lounge

lovers' passions and the solitude of the forest or a moonlit night to musical life

but soon captured the attention of jazz impresario Norman Granz and within a few years was recording under his auspices for Clef/Mercury in New York

the slapped-together supergroup Dirty Mac (John Lennon

all of them recorded in front of a 'live' audience

making early records in 1952 with Tito Puente

Mercury/Clef/Norgran and Decca labels during this era

which represented the years when they achieved their greatest success

Bonnie Guitar was an unusual personality in the world of pop music

and also posthumously

lyrical and impeccable"

3 and the Six Piano Pieces