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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Kirby
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Athlone
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Position held
- diocesan bishop
- Educated at
- Maynooth University
- Religion
- Catholic Church
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- John Kirby (bishop)
- date of birth
- 1938-10-29
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