John Kirby
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz bassist (1908–1952)
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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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Kirby
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Hollywood
- Occupation
- conductor
- Genre
- indie folk
- Instrument
- tuba
- Image
- 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
- cause of death
- diabetes
- different from
- John Kirby
- Commons category
- John Kirby (musician)
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- manner of death
- natural causes
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