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Seattle Jazz Vocalist Ernestine Anderson Dies


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The renowned jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson, whose career spanned six decades, has died at the age of 87. According to the Seattle Times , Anderson attended Garfield High School and came up in Seattle’s jazz scene in the mid-1940s. She found success in Los Angeles and on the road — then at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and so many other places. She was nominated for a Grammy four times. Jim Wilke is the host of ‘Jazz Northwest’ on KPLU every Sunday. He first started listening to Anderson
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