Liza Mae "May" Alix was an American cabaret and jazz vocalist.

She began her career as a singer with the Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone was an American jazz clarinetist.- Background :...

 band in the clubs of Chicago. Soon she teamed up with Ollie Powers performing as a duo in cabarets. In 1926, she recorded with Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

's Hot Five. One of the recordings, "Big Butter and Egg Man" became Armstrong's first chart hit. She collaborated with Jimmie Noone on half a dozen recordings for Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records is a record label active for many years in the United States and in the United Kingdom.-History:Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which introduced a retail line of phonographs at the same time. The name was derived from one of their...

 (1929–1930). During the 1930s and early 1940s, she performed mainly in New York City

New York City

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