Jessie Hauck

Jessie Hauck (vocalist) was born Jessie Mae Anderson in Osceola, Arkansas, on December 5, 1937. She later lived in Springfield, IL, and St. Louis, MO, where she worked as a jazz vocalist. She married Theodore Hauck and later married Howard Lovejoy. Jessie moved to Milwaukee in the 1970s, where she taught at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and performed all over the Midwest. She often worked with Manty Ellis, who described her as a “phenomenal singer.”  Jessie was tragically killed in a car accident on May 23, 1995.

Sheri Hauck, the youngest of her eight children, is an accomplished vocalist based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Check out Jessie singing "In a Sentimental Mood' and "All of Me" at Sweet Basil in NYC with bassist Richard Davis, pianist Kenny Barron, drummer Billy Hart, and tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford, aired on PBS Television on January 4, 1984.

https://www.pbs.org/video/wpt-presents-sidran-davis-richard-davis-and-friends-sweet-basil-nyc/