Dardanelle Breckenbridge

b.: December 27, 1917 (Avalon, Massachusetts, U.S.) d.: August 08, 1997 (Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.) Can also appear as Dardanelle (or Dardenelle) Breckenridge. American blues and jazz singer, vibraphonist, pianist, composer and arranger. She collaborated mainly with Lionel Hampton. After her marriage, she was named Marcia Hadley, but she appears often on records simply as Dardenelle.