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John Kirby

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Irish bishop

Person · Open Library

Works
24

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  • The American ruling class
  • Address delivered at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, New Orleans, April, 1903
  • Additional Observations on the Treatment of Certain Severe Forms of Hemorrhoidal Excrescence
  • Four Died Trying
  • Cricket Book of Lists in Colour

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1908-12-31
Active to
1952-06-14

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12,849
Total plays
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John Kirby (December 31, 1908 – June 14, 1952), was a jazz double-bassist who played the trombone as well as tuba. Kirby was born in Winchester, Virginia. In 1926 he moved to Baltimore, Maryland, a town he is still linked to by some. He played with Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson (where during the early 1930s, he performed some amazingly complicated tuba work on a number of Henderson's recordings) before starting his own band in 1937. His John Kirby's Sextet "The Onyx Club Boys" (usually incl

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
John
Family name
Kirby
Gender
male
Place of birth
Athlone
Occupation
Catholic bishop
Position held
diocesan bishop
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Commons category
John Kirby (bishop)
date of birth
1938-10-29
different from
John Kirby
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