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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Tue May 27, 2014, 01:24 PM May 2014

Herb Jeffries: 'Bronze Buckeroo' actor and singer dies

Rest in peace.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27585079

Known to cinema audiences as the Bronze Buckaroo, he starred in four cowboy films aimed at black audiences from 1937 to 1939.

In 1940, Jeffries scored a big hit with jazz legend Duke Ellington as the vocalist on Flamingo.

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Herb Jeffries: 'Bronze Buckeroo' actor and singer dies (Original Post) shenmue May 2014 OP

Used to see him a lot at a jazz club in the Valley run by his son. blm May 2014 #1

blm

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1. Used to see him a lot at a jazz club in the Valley run by his son.

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 01:54 PM

May 2014

He was always elegant looking and always acted the gentleman.

Great throwback jazz. Saw Louie Bellson play there.

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