| LC control no. | n 88644168 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Crosby, Israel |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1919-01-19 |
| Death date | 1962-08-11 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra Three Sharps and a Flat (Musical group) Ahmad Jamal Trio |
| Profession or occupation | Bass guitarists Jazz musicians |
| Found in | Jamal, A. Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing [SR] p1985: container (Israel Crosby, bass) New Grove dict. of jazz (Crosby, Israel (Clem); b. Jan. 19, 1919, Chicago, d. Aug. 11, 1962, Chicago; double bass player) African American National Biography, accessed January 6, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Crosby, Israel; jazz musician, bassist. He was born 19 January 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; played a historic bass solo on Blues for Israel; joined the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra (1936-1938); performed with Three Sharps and a Flat (1939); one of first African-Americans to work as a studio musician, performing with Raymond Scott's radio orchestra at CBS (1944); recorded four songs cut for the Apollo label (1947); joined the Ahmad Jamal Trio (1951-1962) and the pianist George Shearing's trio (1962). He died 11 August 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) |
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