John Kirby
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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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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Winchester
- Active from
- 1908-12-31
- Active to
- 1952-06-14
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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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- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
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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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- 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
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- John Kirby (musician)
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