Editing Chris Albertson (section)

==Early life==

Albertson was born in [[Reykjavík]], [[Iceland]], on October 18, 1931, but his father left the family before he was a year old. Yvonne, his mother, married three more times.<ref name="Sendomir">{{cite news|last=Sendomir|first=Richard|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/obituaries/chris-albertson-dead.html|title=Chris Albertson, Biographer of Bessie Smith, Is Dead at 87|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 9, 2019|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref> He was educated in Iceland, [[Denmark]] and England before studying commercial art in [[Copenhagen]].

In 1947, while living in Copenhagen, Albertson listened by chance to a [[Bessie Smith]] recording on radio; it led to an abiding interest in [[jazz]] and [[blues]] music. "We found magic in such names as [[Kid Ory]], [[King Oliver]], [[Johnny Dodds]], Bessie Smith and [[Ma Rainey]]," he wrote on his ''Stomp Off'' blog in 2010.<ref name="Sendomir"/>

On his home tape machine, Albertson recorded visiting British [[New Orleans]] [[revivalist artist|revivalists]] [[Ken Colyer]], [[Chris Barber]] and [[Lonnie Donegan]] in 1953. These recordings were subsequently released on the Danish [[Storyville Records]] and British [[Tempo Records (UK)|Tempo Records]] labels.