John Kirby
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Joseph Kirby, Jr., John Joseph Kirby Jr., John Joseph Kirby, John Kirby, Jr., John Kirby Jr.
American lawyer (1939-2019)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 24
Top works
- 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
jazzswing
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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Family name
- Kirby
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Falls Church
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Merton College
- Award
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1939-10-22
- date of death
- 2019-10-02
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