Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo”– a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity – died on ...

Herb Jeffries was the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies in the late 1930s, which garnered him the nickname the "Bronze Buckeroo." He... Singing Star Of All-Black Cowboy Movies, Herb ...

Herb Jeffries, a pioneer in African American-targeted Western movies and jazz singer known as the “Bronze Buckaroo,” has died. He was 100. Jeffries died of heart failure in West Hills, Calif. on ...