John Kirby
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Within Vinony's link graph, John Kirby is referenced by 69 other articles, and connects out to double bass, World War II and California.
Vinony files it under 1908 births, 1952 deaths and 20th-century American double-bassists.
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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
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Winchester
- Active from
- 1908-12-31
- Active to
- 1952-06-14
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 12,849
- Total plays
- 64,809
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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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- “We will always insist, as a matter of statutory requirements and policy, on a variety of end use requirements.”
- “So, just before I kick off on those issues, I do want to start off by extending our thoughts to the victims of the horrible terrorist attack in Ankara, Turkey, this morning.”
- “It’s very difficult to look at these images and the human cost. It’s difficult, and I apologise.”
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Wikidata facts
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- John Kirby, Buster Bailey, Washington DC, May 1946 (Gottlieb).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1908-12-31
- date of death
- 1952-06-14
- Commons category
- John Kirby (musician)
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