Editing Jimmy Rushing (section)

==Career==
Rushing toured the Midwest and California as an itinerant blues singer in the early 1920s before moving to Los Angeles, where he played piano and sang with [[Jelly Roll Morton]].<ref name="LarkinBlues">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Blues]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1995|edition=Second|isbn=0-85112-673-1|page=314}}</ref> He also sang with [[Billy King (vaudeville)|Billy King]] before moving on to [[Walter Page]]'s Blue Devils in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Shabazz|first=Amilcar|date=2007-01-21|title=James Andrew "Jimmy"Rushing (1902-1972) •|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/rushing-james-andrew-jimmy-1902-1972/|access-date=2021-05-25|language=en-US}}</ref> He and other members of the Blue Devils defected to the [[Bennie Moten]] band in 1929.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/>

Moten died in 1935, and Rushing joined Count Basie for what would be a 13-year job.<ref>{{Cite web|title=James Andrew Rushing {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/james-andrew-rushing|access-date=2021-05-25|website=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> Due to his tutelage under his mentor Moten, Rushing was a proponent of the Kansas City, Missouri, [[jump blues]] tradition exemplified by his performances of "Sent for You Yesterday" and "Boogie Woogie" for the Count Basie Orchestra. After leaving Basie, his recording career continued as a singer with other bands.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/>

When the Basie band broke up in 1950, he retired briefly but then formed his own group. He made a guest appearance with [[Duke Ellington]] for the 1959 album ''[[Jazz Party]]''.<ref name="Dance">{{cite web |last1=Dance |first1=Stanley |title=Duke Ellington: Jazz Party |url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/duke-ellington-jazz-party/ |website=JazzTimes |access-date=24 July 2018 |date=1 November 1998}}</ref> In 1960, he recorded an album with the [[Dave Brubeck Quartet]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Yanow, Scott |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/brubeck-rushing-mw0000600879 |title=Brubeck & Rushing |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2014-05-21}}</ref>

He appeared in the 1957 television special ''[[Sound of Jazz]]'', singing one of his signature songs, "I Left My Baby", backed by many of his former Basie band members. In 1958, he was among the  musicians included in an [[Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']] magazine photo by [[Art Kane]] that was memorialized in the documentary film [[A Great Day in Harlem (film)|''A Great Day in Harlem'']].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bach |first=Jean |title=A Great Day in Harlem |url=http://www.a-great-day-in-harlem.com/musicians.html |publisher=Flo-Bert and New York Foundation for the Arts |access-date=December 30, 2013 |format=Film |year=1994}}</ref> He toured the UK with [[Humphrey Lyttelton]] and his band.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> A BBC broadcast with Rushing accompanied by Lyttelton's big band was released in 2009. In 1960, he appeared in a videotaped blues jam at the [[Newport Jazz Festival]] with the [[Muddy Waters]] Blues Band, singing "[[Mean Mistreater]]".<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/fLTCIqfsefc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20180716175936/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTCIqfsefc&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTCIqfsefc |title=Muddy Waters Newport Jazz Festival 1960 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=3 July 1960 |website=YouTube |publisher=UMG (on behalf of Madison Bay Records); LatinAutor - PeerMusic, LatinAutor, BMG Rights Management, CMRRA, ARESA, Abramus Digital, and 4 Music Rights Societies |access-date=5 December 2019 |quote=1803 Mean Mistreater - Muddy Waters: vocal, guitar; Pat Hare: guitar; Otis Spann: piano; James Cotton: harmonica; Andrew Stephenson (bass); Francis Clay (drums); Mean Mistreater Jam add Sammy Price (vocal); Betty Jeannette (vocal); Jimmy Rushing (vocal); Lafayette Thomas (guitar); Butch Cage (fiddle); Willie B Thomas (acoustic guitar); Al Minns and Leon James: hip shaking }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1969, Rushing appeared in ''[[The Learning Tree]]'', the first major studio feature film directed by an African-American, [[Gordon Parks]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=50 Years of Gordon Parks's "The Learning Tree"|url=https://www.warnerbros.com/news/articles/2019/08/06/50-years-gordon-parks-learning-tree|access-date=2021-05-25|website=Warnerbros.com|language=en-US|archive-date=May 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525125400/https://www.warnerbros.com/news/articles/2019/08/06/50-years-gordon-parks-learning-tree|url-status=dead}}</ref>