(piano; leader) was named Grant Ivory, Jr. after his father, “and nicknamed Little Jackie after my uncle who wanted me named after him. My dad refused, stating I was his last-born son and he had not named my oldest brother junior. After grade school the “Little” was dropped and the majority of the people in the community and school knew me as Jackie. I was born in Blytheville, Arkansas on February 27, 1937, and then moved to South Bend, Indiana, a babe in arms. I learned to play the piano by ear at the Herring House, a local community center in South Bend. I had been playing for a while before my mother found out and unrolled me in piano lesions at my grade school. The class was during the lunch hour at Oliver Junior High School. I then took private piano lessons the last year of Junior High School and the first year of High School. I started DUWOP singing on the corner of Scott Street and Western Avenue with Otis Bailey, Bobby Stone, Claude Bowling, and Carl Shane. Eventually I had to start playing the piano to keep us in tune. This experience ended up with me featured in a piano trio with friends Carl Shane on drums and Robert Cobb on bass. During this same time I started singing with Bobby Stone and Ike Cunnigan, a very good sounding vocal trio. Carl Shane was drafted into the U.S. Army and our trio started using a new kid by the name of Bill “Sticks” Nicks on drums. Since then, Nicks has become a legend in his own right. Moving on, I was hired to play the piano by Jean Hampton, a female Tenor Saxophonist, also a South Bend native. All this before I even finished high school. The time came and I graduated from South Bend Central High School in 1955. I then moved to East Chicago, Indiana to work at Inland Steel Mill, playing music on the weekends with Oscar “Baby” Jones. I enlisted into the U.S. Army in 1959, and proudly served three years in the Army Security Agency, primarily in Germany. After an Honorable Discharge in 1962, I played with guitarist Don Davis in Indianapolis, Indiana before starting a Hammond B3 based trio, organ, saxophone and drums. I then went on the road for approximately 14 years, including tours with Willis Jackson and Junior Walker and the All Stars. After all that touring I moved to Oakland, California in 1974 and three years later married my childhood sweetheart in 1977. During my time in California I played professionally in a quartet in almost every venue in the San Francisco Bay area and the state of California. We were the house band at two well established blues venues in Oakland; Jimmies Entertainment Complex (www.sweetjimies.com) on Sundays and the 5th Amendment (www.5thamendment.com) on Thursdays. One of the highlights in the career of the quartet I was in was in 1997 when we performed at the 50th birthday party for one of the members of the Rolling Stones, which was also hosted by Mick Jagger at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California. For additional information and booking contact Grant Ivory, Jr.”: E-mail: givoryjr@yahoo.com Jackie Ivory Site: http://givoryjr.home.att.net. He was leading the JACKIE IVORY QUARTET at Jack’s Bar, 1601 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California in 1990.

(harmonica) recorded behind Albert Collins at Houston, Texas on 13 November 1958 at the Gold Star Studios. The session was produced by Jack Rhodes but remained unreleased as at 1982.
BU 142/22

(blues vocal) was born in Arkansas on 27 March 1927: per Social Security Death Index, account number 546-40-0347. She appears to be Neomie Dixson, aged 3 in 1930, who was at Sulphur Township, Miller County, Arkansas, a daughter of Joshuia Dixson and his wife Haggar: per 1930 census, 14 April 1930. She reportedly moved to Atoka, Oklahoma. She was also based at Detroit, Michigan, where she reportedly recorded for Fortune. Dottie moved to the San Francisco Bay area of California. At some point she was known as Mitchell. She recorded I’LL COME THROUGH (Gedinson’s #6133) as DOTTIE IVORY with JIMMY McCRACKLIN in about 1960. Dottie met Charles Brown at San Francisco in 1967. Brown recorded together with Dottie for BluesWay LP #BLS 6039 at Los Angeles on 16 September 1969, including ALL IS FORGIVEN and remakes of DRIFTING BLUES, MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY (as NEW MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY), BLACK NIGHT and I WANT TO GO HOME. She was working at Los Angeles in 1971 with Charles Brown. She returned to San Francisco by 1974, when she was operating the Stardust Lounge, at Hayes and Laguna, San Francisco. Jim Pugh, organist, played with her. She was known as “San Francisco’s First Lady of The Blues”. One of her features was Dinah Washington’s WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES. She had also managed a hotel, and a cab company, and had a large family. She was known as Naomia Jackson and was residing at Ventura, Oxnard County, California 93030 when she died at Ventura, Oxnard County, California on 22 August 1988. Her father’s surname was Dixson and her mother’s surname was Johnson: per California Death Index, 1940-1997.
Compare DOTTIE JOHNSON, who recorded IT’S A SHAME and THANK YOU DADDY (both Gee #5, released by 8 May 1954).
BU 79/28; LB 16/ ; LB 87/36

(blues vocal) is a grand-niece of the late Will Roy Sanders. By early 2014 she had recorded with Daddy Mack, and was working on her own EP release. She was based at Syracuse, New York. Her aunt Dorothy Sanders died in January 2014.

(gospel group) recorded unreleased titles for Checker on 14 October 1969.

(blues vocal) is a pseudonym used by the late Ted Taylor when he recorded a cover version of Howlin’ Wolf’s song, I’M LEAVING YOU, as featured singer with Bob Reed in 1959 for Dena/ Melatone, presumably at Los Angeles or Gardena, California.

(alternate) is a pseudonym used by King Ivory Lee Semiens, listed at S.

(music publisher) was operated from 305 South Bellevue Street, Suite #105, Memphis, Tennessee 38104 during 1974.

(mixed-gender gospel vocal group) recorded for Coleman #6001, in about 1949, presumably at Newark, New Jersey. They were associated with Elder Broadie and with Harold Williams.

(label) was active in 1964.
IVORY RECORDS featured: IKE TURNER.