Eddie Johnson · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Choctaw Traditions
- Best BAD Advice I've Ever Received
- You Big Dummy
- Crypto Foundations for Building Multi-Generational Wealth
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-05-08
- Active to
- 1938-08-16
27 clubacoustic bluesamericanbluescountry bluesdelta blues
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 230
- Total plays
- 853
Chicago has lost another tenor sax great. Eddie Johnson was eighty-nine and joins Chicago’s pantheon of tenor jazz masters: Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, Eddie Harris, Clifford Jordan. Eddie died on April 7, 2010. He played up until 2004, when his sweet swinging horn gave way to emphysema. Like many Chicago jazzicians, Eddie chose family over the perils of road life and fame. He had an offer to join Duke Ellington’s band in the Forties, but went with the more lucrative jump blues gig with Louis J
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Position
- Small Forward
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- Johnson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- small forward
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 98
- Image
- Eddie Johnson 1986-87.jpg
- Height
- 201
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- date of birth
- 1959-05-01
- drafted by
- Sacramento Kings
- end of work period
- 1999-00-00
- start of work period
- 1981-00-00
- different from
- Edward Johnson
- Commons category
- Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1959)
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