| LC control no. | n 78054331 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Young, Snooky |
| Variant(s) | Young, Snookie Young, Eugene Edward |
| Located | United States |
| Birth date | 1919-02-03 |
| Death date | 2011-05-11 |
| Place of birth | Dayton (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Newport Beach (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra Count Basie Orchestra Tonight Show Orchestra |
| Profession or occupation | Trumpet players Jazz musicians |
| Found in | Snooky and Marshal's album [SR] p1978 (a.e.) label (Snooky Young) container (trumpet and fluegelhorn) New Grove dict. of jazz (Young, Snooky (Snookie; Eugene Edward); b. Feb. 3, 1919, Dayton, OH; trumpeter) Washington post WWW site, May 16, 2011 (Snooky Young; b. Eugene Edward Young, Feb. 3, 1919, Dayton, Ohio; d. May 11 [2011], Newport Beach, Calif., at 92) African American National Biography, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Young, Snooky; Eugene Edward Young; jazz musician, trumpeter; born 03 February 1919 in Dayton, Ohio, United States; played with the family band, Young Snappy Six; was the soloist of Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra (1939); joined the Count Basie Orchestra (1942-1960s); played with Tonight Show Orchestra, NBC (1967-1992); awarded the title of “Jazz Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts (2009); died 11 May 2011 in Newport Beach, California, United States) |
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