An encyclopedia of South Carolina jazz and blues musicians / Benjamin Franklin V.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--South Carolina--Bio-bibilography--Dictionaries.

Jazz.

Blues (Music)--South Carolina--Biography--Encyclopedias.

Blues (Music).

African American musicians--South Carolina.

African American musicians.

African American jazz musicians--South Carolina.

African American jazz musicians.

African American composers--South Carolina.

African American composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive guide to the men and women who contributed to and defined the musical roots of South Carolina

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Encyclopedia Entries, A-Z

A

Acey, Johnny (John AceyGoudelock

"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

Livingston, Fud (Joseph Anthony)

Livingston, Toots (Walter Francis, Jr.)

Logan, Peter M. ("Hatsie")

Lovel, Joseph

Lucky, Cab

M

Mack, Freddie (Fred, Jr.

"Mr. Super Bad")

Mack, Oscar Lee

Mackey, Wes (Wesley)

Mancha, Steve (Clyde Darnell Wilson)

Manigault, Hezekiah

Manigault, Walter

Mars, Johnny (John Robert)

Mars, Sylvia

Martin, Albert ("Pepper")

Martin, Bill (William Edward)

Martin, Fiddlin' (Frank or Franklin)

Martin, Rowland

Martin, Walter

Mason, Lil (Lillian

"Blues Mistress," "Chicago's Sweetheart of the Blues," "Upstairs Lil")

Mayer, Luther, Jr.

Mayhams, Norridge Bryant ("Norris the Troubadour")

Mazyck, Oscar

McClennan, George A.

McClintock, Lil

McCutchen, Philip

McFadden, Ruth Naomi

McGee, Evelyn

McGill, Benjamin

McGill, Rollee

McIntosh, Traps (Joseph)

McKenzie, Mac (Elias W.)

McKinney, Nina Mae (Probably Nannie M. McKenna)

McNeill, Charles

McPherson, Joseph

Mercury, George

Middleton, Frank

Mikell, Francis Eugene

Mikell, Otto Reginald

Miles, Josie (Josephine)

Miley, Bubber (James Wesley)

Miller, Fred

Miller, Johnny

Mills, Alonzo J.

Mills, Alonzo J., Jr.

Mills, Robert

Mills, Thomas (?)

Milton, John

Minger, Pete (George Allen)

Mockabee, Rudy (Jesse Rudolph, Jr.)

Moore, Samuel

Morant, Joey (Joseph Nathaniel)

Morgan, Henry

Morrow, El (E. L.)

Motley, Frank, Jr. ("Dual-Trumpet," "Two Horn")

Mouzon, Alphonse

Mulholland, Brian Thomas

Mulligan, Levy

Murphy, John

Murray, Juggy (Henry, Jr.

"Big Foot," "Juggy Murray Jones")

Myers, Leon

Myott, Big Dave (David

"Bo")

N.

Nesbitt, Blind Gussie.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611176223

1611176220

OCLC:

945735526