Billie Pierce

Billie Pierce

Wilhelmina Goodson, better known as Billie Pierce (June 8, 1907, Marianna, Florida - September 29, 1974, New Orleans) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

She was one of seven piano-playing sisters born to a mother and father who both themselves played piano. Early in the 1920s, Pierce played with Bessie Smith in a theater in Pensacola, and later in the decade played in the bands of Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. In the 1930s she played at the Blue Jay Club, where she met trumpeter De De Pierce; the two fell in love, married, and co-led their own ensemble, which served as the house band at Luthjen's Dance Hall in the 1950s. She played in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and was a regular on the New Orleans jazz scene in the 1950s through the early 1970s.

References

*Eugene Chadbourne, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kpfyxqehld6e~T1 Billie Pierce] at Allmusic


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