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Singer, Teacher Jimmy McPhail Dies

The Washington Post | March 19, 1998 | Copyright

Jimmy McPhail, 70, a Washington blues singer who toured and recorded with such jazz luminaries as Duke Ellington, taught for 25 years at Eliot Junior High School and operated a popular Northeast Washington nightspot, the Gold Room, died March 16 at Howard University Hospital. He had heart ailments.

Mr. McPhail appeared with such singers as Pearl Bailey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Josephine Baker. In 1965, he performed in the San Francisco premiere of Duke Ellington's first "sacred concert," a program of original religious music. He recorded with Ellington for RCA…

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