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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bardu Ali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bardu Ali (September 23, 1906 – October 29, 1981) was Born in New Orleans.
		Although is is widely reported that Bardu Ali was born September 23, 1910, he was born in 1906, and in Mississppi.
		Ella was a New Orleans native, and Ali was an immigrant from Arabia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bardu-Ali (936 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Johnny Otis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1947 he and Bardu Ali opened the Barrelhouse Club in the Watts district of Los Angeles.
		He reduced the size of his band and hired singers Mel Walker, Little Esther and the Robins (who later became the Coasters).
		The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish Los Ãngeles, meaning the angels), also known as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Johnny-Otis (1401 words)

	NEA Jazz Masters EllaFitzgerald
		Among those who heard her were Benny Carter, Bardu Ali (conductor of the Chick Webb Orchestra that nightly lit up the dance floor at the Savoy Ballroom), and Webb band singer Charles Linton.
		Though first Webb himself, then Carter and Ali were all widely credited with “discovering” young Ella, it was actually Linton who introduced Ella to Webb and insisted the bandleader give her a tryout.
		At the time Webb was actively seeking a singer who he felt would increase his band’s popularity and enable it to transcend its danceband status.
	www.iaje.org /bio.asp?ArtistID=51 (673 words)

	American BigBands - Page 1 "W" Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bardu Ali was the 'frontman' for the Chick Webb Orchestra.) Ella was on stage at the Harlem Opera House the night Bardu Ali was in the audience.
		About this same time, she had another Harlem Opera House Amateur Night tryout, and won a week-long professional engagement at the venue (beginning February 16, 1935), with the band of vocalist Tiny Bradshaw, who had recorded eight titles for Decca the previous year.
		Not much later, Bardou Ali, 'frontman' for the Webb band, escorted her backstage to Webb's dressing room.
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	CruelKnee: Brown, Charles
		One of the most influential singers of his day, Brown was an accomplished classical pianist whose career began in 1943 after he moved to Los Angeles.
		He played with the Bardu Ali band before joining Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, a piano-guitar-bass
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	cruelknee.blogspot.com /2004/11/brown-charles.html (53 words)

	robins
		In a short time they had become part of the burgeoning R and B scene along Central Avenue in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
		Soon the trio began performing at The Barrelhouse, a night spot founded by Bardu Ali and Johnny Otis.
		Otis was responsible for introducing Bobby Nunn, a talented performer and bass singer to the trio who now became a foursome with Tyrone Terrell, Billy Richards, and Roy Richards.
	home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/robins.html (2369 words)

	Big Band Leaders Who Helped Shape R&B
		Webb's guitarist, Bardu Ali, gave a persistent street waif named Ella Fitzgerald a chance to show her vocal chops and thereby gave the world a gift it would treasure for decades to come.
		Ali later landed in Los Angeles, where, while leading the house band at the Lincoln Theater, he employed club-blues crooner Charles Brown.
		By the end of the forties, Ali and Johnny Otis operated The Barrelhouse, the world’s first official r&b club.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/r&b_history/82352/2 (232 words)

	Ella Fitzgerald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her singing debut was at age 16 in 1934 at the Harlem Apollo Theatre New York in one of the earliest of famous "Amateur Nights" which she won adding to both the Apollo and herself.
		She noticed by Bardu Ali of Chick Webb 's band who persuaded Webb to hire She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in 1935 in Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
		She recorded several hit songs with including "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll to Swing It" but it was her of the nursery rhyme "A Tisket A that launched her to stardom.
	www.freeglossary.com /Ella_Fitzgerald (933 words)

	Bardu Ali \| K-Lite FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a page in the life of Bardu Ali, a fine vocalist and bandleader who seems to have had more influence on the jazz and rhythm and blues scenes as a promoter, organizer and manager than as a performer.
		He perservered in the case of Fitzgerald and she wound up getting hired by the Chick Webb big band after all.
		Ali was also closely associated with rhythm and blues giant Johnny Otis as well as closing out his career as the manager of feisty comedian Redd Foxx.
	www.k-litefm.com /performer/535639/bardu-ali (228 words)

	Blues & Swing Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From there he went on to play drums for the bands of Harlen Lenoard, Bardu Ali, Lloyd Hunter, George Morrison, and Robert Johnson.
		In 1948 Johnny joined the Bardu and Tila Ali, and Johnny Miller to open the Barrelhouse, which was the first Rhythm and Blues Club in Los Angeles.
		It was here that many RandB artists got their start, including Little Esther Phillips, the Robins, and Mel Walker; artists that Johnny discovered and featured as vocalists in the club.
	www.johnnyotisworld.com /cds/bs.htm (859 words)

	Solid! -- Ella Fitzgerald Biography
		He took a special interest in the young singer and began to help her along with her career.
		A year later she had gained a spot on the bill at the Harlem Opera House, where Chick Webb frontman Bardu Ali heard one of her performances.
		Webb had been under pressure from his manager to replace his older male vocalist with a younger personality.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_fitzgeralde.php (536 words)

	WikiMiki.net - Bardu Ali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		- May 13 - Pope John Paul II is shot at and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St.
		Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience.
		It is the largest debtor nation in the world, with total gross foreign debt of over $13,000,000,000,000 (2005 estimate); and it abso
	wormser.konkordat.de.wikimiki.net /de/Bardu+Ali (8917 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mellow Cats 'n' Kittens Vol.1: Hot R&B and Cool Blues 1946-1952: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Boogie Rebob - Bardu Ali And His Orchestra
		That Gal Safronia - Bardu Ali And His Orchestra
		The first volume in short series devoted to the post-WWII West coast R&B scene as captured on wax by Modern Records of Los Angeles.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002F0Z3K (500 words)

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	JAZZED IN CLEVELAND - Part Seven - by Joe Mosbrook
		Then I tried the Harlem Opera House and won again."
		Bardu Ali, who was playing guitar with the Chick Webb Orchestra, heard her and suggested that Webb hire her as a singer for his band.
		The little drummer didn’t want a girl singer for his swinging big band, but finally said, "We'll take her to Yale University and if she goes over with the college kids, she stays." She did.
	www.cleveland.oh.us /wmv_news/jazz7.htm (798 words)

	VH1.com : Bardu Ali : Artist Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Add a link to your "Bardu Ali" fan site on VH1.com!
		Imagine being an influential member of a big band that was looking for a new singer, and wandering in on a completely unknown Ella Fitzgerald winning a handful of bucks at a talent show.
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	www.vh1.com /artists/az/ali_bardu/artist.jhtml (133 words)

	eBay - CD: Mellow Cats 'n' Kittens Vol.1 Hot R B And Cool Blues 1946-1952 (UPC: 0029667003025) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		16. Boogie Rebob - Ali, Bardu and His Orchestra
		24. That Gal Safronia - Ali, Bardu and His Orchestra
		These musicians were clearly the tops in their field - flawless vocals, untouchable jazz and blues chops on their instruments, and if you look at the pictures, impeccable fashion sense.
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