An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians , livre ebook

An Encyclopedia of South Carolina
Jazz Blues Musicians

AN Encyclopedia o f South Carolina JAZZ BLUES Musicians
Benjamin Franklin V
2016 University of South Carolina
Published by the University of South Carolina Press Columbia, South Carolina 29208
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data can be found at http://catalog.loc.gov/
ISBN: 978-1-61117-621-6 (cloth) ISBN: 978-1-61117-622-3 (ebook)
Frontispiece: Edward Elcha and Percy Tappin, photograph postcard of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, Charleston, South Carolina, 1914. Silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper; H W: 3 1/2 5 3/8 in. (8.9 13.7 cm). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2014.63.88.1
Front cover photograph: Wes Mackey, courtesy of Angela Fama
To the music makers and, as always, to Jo, Abigail, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Louisa
ALSO BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN V
Commentaries on Jazz Musicians and Jazz Songs: A History of Jazz in Retrospect (2011)
Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others (2008)
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Encyclopedia Entries, A-Z
A : Acey, Johnny (John Acey Goudelock; Johnny Chef )
Aiken, Bud (Lucius Eugene)
Aiken, Gus (Augustus)
Aitken, Virgil
Alberti, Bob (Robert Lewis)
Allen, Doris
Allen s Brass Band
Allison, Mose John, Jr.
Alston, Herbert A.
Anderson, Alvin Lewis
Anderson, Buster (James)
Anderson, Cat (William Alonzo)
Anderson, Charles
Anderson, Eugene
Anderson, Kip
Anderson, Little Pink (Alvin Lewis)
Anderson, Maceo E.
Anderson, Pink (Pinkney)
Anderson, Sunshine (James)
Antrum, (Theodore) Roosevelt
Arnold, John Henry ( Big Man, Blind Man )
Arnold, Mac (McAlvin)
Arnold, Vince
Asbury, Willie
Ashford, Nick (Nickolas)
Askew, Fleming or Flemming
B : Barbour, Lee David
Bash, Walter
Bates, Peg Leg (Clayton)
Baxter, Quentin E.
Beckum, Jimmy (Bernard James; Big Jim )
Belden, Bob (James Robert)
Benford, Bill (William Charles)
Benford, Tommy (Thomas P.)
Bennett, Daniel
Bennett, Freddie (Frederick)
Benton, Brook (Benjamin Franklin Peay)
Bilbro, Bert Hunter
Bing, Bill (Cleveland, Though Possibly Willie)
Bing, Isaiah S.
Blake, William Leroy
Blowers, Johnny (John Garrett, Jr.)
Blue Scotty (Milford Kenneth Scott)
Bogan, Ted (Theodore R.)
Bolton, Robert
Bonds, Will
Bouchillon, Charlie (Charles G.)
Bouchillon, Chris (Christopher Allen)
Bouchillon, Ethel Mae Waters
Bouchillon, (John) Uris
Bowen, Ichabod Marcy
Bowers, David C. ( Boots )
Bowie, Prince
Bowman, Theodore Albert
Boyd, Don (Donald Edward)
Bradley, Herman
Brazel, Gerald
Briggans, Eunice
Briggs, J. T. ( Preacher )
Briggs, Pete (Peter)
Brigham, Eunice Henry
Briscoe, Sylvester
Brockman, (Marion) Brooks
Brooks, Baby (Roosevelt)
Brooks, Sam
Brown, Arthur
Brown, Charles
Brown, Charleston (Russell)
Brown, Clinton
Brown, Edward
Brown, James
Brown, James Joseph ( Godfather of Soul )
Brown, John
Brown, Kathy (Katherine Ann)
Brown, Maxine
Brown, Melvin
Brown, Nappy (Napoleon Brown Culp)
Bruggan, Eunice
Bryant, Gladys Lillian
Bryson, Peabo (Robert Peapo)
C : Cadett, Wilmot
Calhoun, Lucy
Callaham, (Andrew) Bernard
Campbell, Richard
Captain Luke (Luther Mayer, Jr.)
Carolina Slim (Elijah Staley)
Carter, Wilbur
Cedar Creek Sheik (Philip McCutchen)
Chaney, Babe
Charleston Camp-Meeting Shouters
Charleston Quartet
Checker, Chubby (Ernest Evans)
Childers, Virgil
Chocolate Thunder
Christopher, Homer C.
Christopher, (Martha) Katherine Raines
Claflin University Plantation Melody Quintet
Claflin University Quintet
Clark(e), Erskine
Clark s Brass Band
Coker, Dolo (Charles Mitchell)
Conger, Larry (Laurence Henry)
Corley, Johnnie J., Jr.
Covay, Don (James Donald Randolph; Pretty Boy )
Craig, Ralph Francis
Crawford, Rosetta Smalls
D : Dangerfield, John Henry
Daniels, Holland Wrightson ( Toby )
Daniels, Ira
Daniels, Julius
Daniels, Paul
Dantzler, Isaac
Dash, (St.) Julian Bennett
Davis, Gary ( Blind Gary, Rev. Gary )
Davis, Isaac ( Son )
Davis, M. L.
Davis, Raymond ( Sting Ray )
Dean, Stephen
Delaney, Tom (Thomas Henry)
Derrick, Charles D., Jr.
Dillard, Moses Chriswell, Jr.
Dixon, Ola Mae
Doctor, Joseph
Dogan, Nathaniel
Dooley, Simmie (Simeon; Blind Simmie )
Downing, Zeno
Drayton, Charles Exodus
Drayton, Joseph
Dreher, Clarence M.
Drew, Patti
E : Earl(e), Eugene
Eclipse Brass Band
Ellis, Jimmy (James Thomas, II)
Ellis, McKinley T.
Ellis, Melvin ( Prezzy )
Erwin, Gary Anthony
Esquerita (Eskew Reeder; Fabulash, Magnificent Malochi, S. Q. )
Evans, Ernest
F : Fantastic Johnny C (Johnnie J. Corley, Jr.)
Fawks, John
Felix, Delbert Eugene
Fennell, Ellory
Ferguson, Cool John
Ferguson, H-Bomb (Robert Percell; Cobra Kid )
Ferguson, Jim (James Warner)
Fields, Geechie (Julius P.)
Fisher, Snow (George)
Foote, Bea (Beatrice Harrisson Pugh)
Foster, Tommie (Thomas)
Fowler, Craig
Frazier, Jake (Jacob William)
Frazier, Theodore
Free, Ron (Ronald Guy)
Freed, Arthur
Frost, Lottie
G : Gaffney, Howard Leon
Gardiner, Robert Aman
Garland, Hank (Walter Louis; Sugarfoot )
Garlington, John C.
Garrison, Ame or Amy (Amelia L.)
Gary, O. C.
Gary, Sam (Samuel, Jr.)
Gary, Sam (Sammie or Sammy Lee, Jr.)
Gibbs, William
Gill, Tommy (Thomas Lee, Jr.)
Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks)
Gilliard, Amos
Gillum, Charles
Gillum, Christopher
Gillum, Paul
Ginyard, J. C. (Caleb Nathaniel, Jr.)
Glenn, Howard Lindbergh
Glenn, Sadie Thomasina
Glenn, William Henry
Glover, Candice Rickelle
Glover, James
Godfrey, Rickey Eugene
Goins, Elder James
Goins, Mother Pauline Singleton
Goodwin, Dick (Gordon Richard)
Goodwin, Henry Clay
Goodwin, Ralph Norman ( Iron Fingers )
Goudelock, John Acey
Goudelock, Sharon
Goudlock, Jack (John R.)
Graham, Zacharias
Grant, Isiah Alexander
Grate, Tommy (Thomas, Jr.)
Green, Butler
Green, Daniel
Green, Ed
Green, Freddie (Frederick William; Pep )
Greene, (Samantha) Madeline
Griffin, Della (Ardella Gilliam, Della Simpson)
Guitar Slim (James Stephens)
H : Hall, Jim (James Allen)
Hamilton, Jimmy (James)
Hamilton, Lonnie, III
Hardison, Alex
Hardison, Leroy
Hardy, Alonzo
Hardy, Leroy Pinckney
Harper, (William) Emerson ( Geechie )
Harrington, Hamtree (James Carl)
Harris, (Willie) Ralph
Harvey, Aaron
Haynes, John L., Jr.
Haywood, Joe Dean
Helbing, Stockton Thomas
Helms, Johnny (John N.)
Henderson, Earl
Henderson, James
Heyward, (Edwin) Dubose
Higgins, Billy (William Weldon; Jazz Caspar )
Hightower, Lottie Frost
Hill, Bertha ( Chippie )
Hill, Wallace R.
Holland, Peanuts (Herbert Lee)
Holmes, Edward
Holmes, Horace
Holmes, Nat (Nathaniel; Georgetown )
Holmes, Reuben Sam
Hooks, Robert
Howe, Jack Kenneth
Hubbard, Lester or Leslie
Humphries, Bill (William Darlington)
Hunt, Lulu (Lula M.)
Hunter, Robert
Hurst, Mary Ann
Hutto, J. B. (Joseph Benjamin)
I : Ironing Board Sam (Samuel Moore)
Irving, Porter
J : Jackson, Archie
Jackson, Arthur
Jackson, Charles
Jackson, Chuck (Charles)
Jackson, Michael
Jacobs, Charles
Jamerson, James Lee
Jefferson, Maceo Buckingham
Jefferson, Warren W.
Jenkins, Edmund Thornton
Jenkins, Hezekiah (Zebedee Manigault)
Jenkins, Lucas
Jenkins, Nathaniel
Jenkins, Robert
Jenkins, Stirling Herbert
Jenkins, Thaddeus ( Little Jabbo )
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Manigault)
Jennings, Butler
Jennings, Inez
Johnson, Billy (William Francis)
Johnson, Buddy (Woodrow Wilson)
Johnson, Ella (Ella May or Ellamae)
Johnson, Henry ( Rufe )
Johnson, Hiram
Johnson, Jonas
Johnson, Roosevelt
Johnson, Thelmon
Johnson, Wanda Jean
Johnson, William
Jones, Abraham
Jones, Etta
Jones, Rufus ( Speedy )
Jordan, (James) Taft
K : Keenan, Norman Dewey
Kennedy, Arthur
Kenny, George W., Jr.
Kenyatta, Robin (Robert Prince Haynes)
King, Mabel (Donnie Mabel Elizabeth Washington)
Kirkland, Leroy E.
Kitt, Eartha Mae
Koon, Jessie
Kyer, Wilson Harrison ( Peaches )
L : Ladson, Samuel
Leake, Henry
Lee, Henry
Leeke (Leake), Henry
Lester, Henry
Letman, Johnny (John Bernard)
Lewis, Robert Stephen
Liberty, Jeff (Jeffrey William)
Ligon, Bert