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Dink Johnson
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1892
- Active to
- 1954
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 269
- Total plays
- 1,124
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Ollie "Dink" Johnson (Biloxi, Mississippi, October 28, 1892 – Portland, Oregon, November 29, 1954) was a dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer. Dink Johnson was the younger brother of the bass player/bandleader William Manuel Johnson. He worked around Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana before moving to the western United States in the early 1910s. He played around Nevada and California, often with his brother Bill. Most prominently he played with the Original Creole Orchestra (mo