Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991

LC control no.	n 96034586
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	ML419.B744 Biography
Personal name heading	Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Briggs, Arthur, 1899-1991
Birth date	1901-04-09
Death date	1991-06-15
Place of birth	Saint George's (Grenada)
Place of death	Chantilly (France)
Found in	Freddy Johnson and his orchestra, 1933-1939 [SR] p1995: container (Arthur Briggs, trumpet) New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Briggs, Arthur; b. Apr. 9, 1899, Charleston, SC; d. Chantilly, France, July 15, 1991; trumpeter; date and place of birth believed to be correct, but for much of his life he claimed British nationality by virtue of his birth at St. Georges, Canada (presumably meaning St. Georges, Newfoundland), in 1901) Phone call from his nephew, James Briggs Murray, NYPL, July 23, 2010 (Arthur Briggs; b. St. Georges, Grenada, Apr. 9, 1901) Better days will come again, 2020: t.p. (Arthur Briggs) ECIP page 5 (new research shows conclusively that Briggs was born in St. George's, Grenada, in 1901; claimed his birthday variously as April 9 or 10; birth record doesn't list the date) ECIP pages 9-11 (emigrated to United States, November, 1917) ECIP page 18 (In order to join the 369th 15th Brass Band, Arthur Briggs claimed to have been born in 1899, making him eighteen years old and eligible for military service) Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2010, viewed via Questia WWW site, July 16, 2019 (Arthur Briggs himself has always been vague, even contradictory about the place and date of his birth. On more than one occasion he claimed to be a United States citizen: "I was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the 10th of April 1901. My parents were from Grenada, Mississippi." In actual fact he was born in St. George's on the Caribbean island of Grenada on April 9, 1899, the youngest of ten children of a father from St. George's and a mother from Barbados. According to the passenger list of the British and Burmese Steam Navigation's liner SS Maraval, James Arthur Briggs, musician, eighteen years and six months old, arrived from Grenada in New York on November 22, 1917)