Othella Dallas

Othella Dallas (Satumba 26, 1925 - Nuwamba 28, 2020) 'yar rawa ce kuma mawaƙiyar jazz ta Amurka. Bayan ta yi aiki a Paris da Zürich, ta buɗe makarantar rawa a Gundeldingen kwata na Basel a shekarar 1975, inda ta koyar da dabarun Dunham. 

 Rayuwa da aiki 
Dallas, wacce mahaifiyarta ita ce mawakin piano na farko ɗan Afirka-Amurka da aka ji a rediyon St. Louis, ta fito ne daga dangin mawaka; ɗan'uwanta kuma shine Frank Strozier . WC Handy shine mai kula da ita. A shekarar 1943, Katherine Dunham ta gano ta a wani wasan kwaikwayo na makaranta a St. Louis, wanda ya kawo ta kamfanin rawa a New York. A matsayinta na mai rawa kaɗai ga Kamfanin Dunham, Strozier ta yi rangadin zuwa Kudancin Amurka da Turai. Bayan aurensu, ta ƙaura zuwa Faransa a shekarar 1949. A can ta fara yin wasa a matsayin mawaƙiya daga 1952, tare da manyan mutane kamar Sidney Bechet da Nat King Cole . Bugu da ƙari, ta kafa makarantar rawa a can, kamar yadda yake a shekarun 1960 a Zürich, inda ta koyar da Margrit Läubli, Daniel Spoerri, Ruedi Walter da Margrit Rainer . Duke Ellington ya rubuta mata waƙoƙi biyu; An yi rikodin mawaƙin na farko a 1967 da septet na Mac Strittmatter. An sake yin wasu kundin waƙoƙi tun daga shekarun 1980. A ranar haihuwarta ta cika shekaru 70, ta yi waka a Basler Tabourettli na tsawon makonni uku, sannan daga baya ta yi rangadin Rasha. Faifan CD ɗinta mai suna I Live the Life I Love (2008) ya ba ta damar fitowa a Festival da Jazz da ke St. Moritz da kuma Theater Rigiblick da ke Zürich.

Andres Brütsch ya yi fim ɗin gaskiya mai suna Othella Dallas - What Is Luck?, wanda aka fara nuna shi a shekarar 2015. 

Bitar rawa da ta gudanar, wadda ba wai kawai ta gudanar a Basel ba, har ma a wasu biranen Turai kamar Landan, sun shahara saboda ita ce malamar rawa ta ƙarshe da ta ci gaba da aiki wadda ta yi rawa tare da Katherine Dunham .  A matsayinta na mawaƙiyar jazz, Dallas ta yi rangadin Switzerland tare da ƙungiyar mawakanta a shekarar 2019 a matsayin wani ɓangare na "Yawon Buɗe Ido na Cika Shekaru 94". 

 Kundin Waƙoƙi 

 Ƙaramar Yarinya daga Memphis: Nunin 1925-1995 ( Mons Records 1995, tare da Thomas Moeckel, Philippe Hammel, Kirk Lightsey, Tibor Elekes, John Betsch )
 Zazzabi don Bluesy Jazz (Mons Records 1995, tare da Matthias Bröde, Hubert Nuss, Christian Ramond, Hans Braber)
 Me ake kira wannan abin Soyayya? (Brambus Records 2000, tare da Pius Baschnagel, Nick Mens, da Thomas Silvestri)
 Ina Rayuwa da Rayuwar da nake So (Suonix 2008)

 Kyaututtuka 

 2019: Kyautar Jazz ta Switzerland 

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutattun 2020
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1925