Jazz history

Maxine Weldon

Los Angeles Times profiles document Weldon's Holdenville upbringing, professional start in Hawaii and Japan, Bakersfield and Los Angeles career, and jazz/blues performance. A separate Los Angeles Times review identifies Washington Rucker and Louis Spears in her trio, while AllMusic supplies discography and Broadway context.

Oklahoma connection

High: Los Angeles Times identifies Holdenville, Oklahoma, upbringing; archival and discographic sources document her jazz/blues career.

Hall of Fame account

The Hall catalog lists Maxine Weldon as a Jazz/Blues Vocalist inducted in 1999.

Sources

  1. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-22-ca-363-story.html;
  2. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-26-ca-280-story.html;
  3. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-03-ca-63360-story.html;
  4. www.allmusic.com/artist/maxine-weldon-mn0001423308
  5. www.okjazz.org/inductees/