| LC control no. | n 95031875 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brymn, J. Tim, 1881-1946 |
| Variant(s) | Brymn, James T. (James Timothy), 1881-1946 Brymn, Jas. T. (James Timothy), 1881-1946 Brymn, Tim, 1881-1946 |
| See also | Corporate body: Black Devil Orchestra Corporate body: Tim Brymn's Black Devil Four |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1881-10-05 |
| Death date | 1946-10-03 |
| Place of birth | Kinston (N.C.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Shaw University United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 350th Tim Brymn's Black Devil Four National Conservatory of Music (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Band directors |
| Found in | I need a little sugar in my bowl, 1932: caption (J. Tim Brymn) ASCAP biogr. dict., 1966 (Brymn, J. Tim; composer, conductor; b. 10/5/1881, Kinston, NC; d. 10/3/46, New York) OCLC, Dec. 9, 1997 (hdgs.: Brymn, J. Tim, 1881-1946; Brymn, James Timothy, 1881-1946; Brymn, Tim, 1881-1946; usages: J. Tim Brymn, James T. Brymn, Jas. T. Brymn, Tim Brymn) The sound of Harlem [SR] 1964: container (Tim Brymn and his Black Devil Orchestra) Black secular vocal groups, Volume I, The twenties (1923-1929) [SR] 1997: label (Tim Brymn's Black Devil Four) Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. Black Manhattan, p2003: insert (J. Tim Brymn; born October 5, 1881, Kingston [that is, Kinston], NC, died October 3, 1946, New York City; songwriter, composer, and conductor) African American National Biography, accessed July 06, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brymn, Tim; James Timothy Brymn; bandleader, songwriter; born 05 October 1881 in Kinston, North Carolina, United States; attended Shaw University and the National Conservatory of Music in New York; teamed up with the lyricist Cecil Mack (Richard McPherson), and they had their first song hit, "Josephine, My Jo"; music director for the successful London run of their musical In Dahomey; music director for the Smart Set traveling shows (1906); conductor of New York's Clef Club Orchestra (1914); career climax in World War I with the band of the 350th Field Artillery Regiment; Black Devils band toured the United States successfully following demobilization (1919); "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues" (1921) is probably his best-known song; leader of a group known as Tim Brymn's Black Devil Four (1923); became manager of the New York office of the publishing house run by Clarence Williams and Armand Piron; died 03 October 1946 in New York, New York, United States) |
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