Barbara Dane

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American folk, blues and jazz singer, and guitarist, born May 12, 1927 in Detroit - died October 20, 2024 in Oakland.

She was married three times: folk singer Rolf Cahn with whom she had a son, Jesse Cahn, also a folk musician; Byron Menendez with whom she had two children Pablo Menéndez and Nina Menéndez; and Irwin Silber.

Jazz critic Leonard Feather called her "Bessie Smith in stereo," and after she opened for him in 1959, Louis Armstrong exclaimed "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser!" and invited her to appear with him on national television's Timex Jazz show. She toured the East Coast with Jack Teagarden, played Chicago with Art Hodes, Roosevelt Sykes, Little Brother Montgomery, Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, Willie Dixon and others, and appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show as a solo guest artist. Other national TV work included The Steve Allen Show, Bobby Troop's Stars of Jazz, Playboy Penthouse, PM East/West and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the early 1960s, she founded the blues and jazz club Sugar Hill, San Francisco.

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Nine Hundred Miles

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I Hate the Capitalist System

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I'm on My Way

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Little Maggie

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Ramblin'

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April 27, 2017

Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Santa Cruz, California, United States


January 9, 2017

Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Santa Cruz, California, United States


July 22, 2007

Freight & Salvage

Berkeley, California, United States


March 1, 2003

Joe's Pub

New York, New York, United States


January 25, 2003

Tomales Regional History Center

Tomales, California, United States

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American folk, blues and jazz singer, and guitarist, born May 12, 1927 in Detroit - died October 20, 2024 in Oakland.She was married three times: folk singer Rolf Cahn with whom she had a son, Jesse Cahn, also a folk musician; Byron Menendez with who... Read the full biography on this page.

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