La sua lunga carriera ricopre oltre settanta anni, ma è legata principalmente al cosiddetto Rinascimento di Harlem.
Discografia parziale 1927 - Creole Love Call / The Blues I Love to Sing (con Duke Ellington) 1927 - Chicago Stomp Down (con Duke Ellington) 1927 - Blues I Love to Sing (con Duke Ellington) 1928 - I Must Have That Man / Baby 1931 - Rhapsody in Love / Minnie The Moocher (con Francis J. Carter e Bennie Paine) 1932 - Strange As It Seems / I'll Never Be The Same 1932 - You Gave Me Everything but Love / This Time It's Love (con Francis J. Carter e Art Tatum) 1932 - I Must Have That Man / Baby (con Duke Ellington) 1933 - Drop Me Off in Harlem / Reaching for the Cotton Moon (con Mills Blue Rhythm Band) 1936 - I'm in the Mood For Love / Truckin''' (con Joe Turner) 1936 - I'm Shooting High / Say You're Mine (con Willie Lewis) 1936 - After You've Gone / Swing Guitars (con Willie Lewis) 1937 - There's a Lull in my Life / Medley (con Kai Ewans Orchestra) 1937 - Stormy Weather / Where or When (con Kai Ewans Orchestra) 1938 - That Old Feeling / I Can't Give You Anything but Love (con Fats Waller) 1939 - You're Blasé (con Stéphane Grappelli e Arthur Young & his Swingtette) 1939 - Deep Purple / Solitude1939 - Don't Worry 'Bout Me / 'Tain't What You Do1939 - Transatlantic Lullaby / I Get Along Without You Very Well1939 - My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Have You Met Miss Jones?1940 - Where or When / The Lady Is a Tramp1940 - Chloe / Begin the Beguine1940 - This Can't Be Love / No Souvenirs1940 - Mist on the River / Fools Rush In1940 - All The Things You Are / I Wanna Be Loved1941 - I Hear a Rhapsody / Mississippi Mama1944 - Sophisticated Lady / I'm Getting Sentimental Over You1949 - Nobody Know de Trouble I've Seen / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child1949 - Deep River / Bye and Bye1949 - My Lord, What a Morning / Swing Low Sweet ChariotFilmografia parzialeA Son of Satan, regia di Oscar Micheaux (1924)Il ladro di Bagdad (The Thief of Bagdad), regia di Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell e Tim Whelan (1940)Variety in Sepia (1947) - varietà TVParkinson'' (1981) - TV
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