Burley, Dan, 1907-1962

LC control no.	no 98022075
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Burley, Dan, 1907-1962 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Burley, Daniel Gardner, 1907-1962
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19071107
Death date	19621030
Place of birth	Lexington (Ky.)
Place of death	Chicago (Ill.)
Affiliation	Associated Negro Press Apollo Theatre (New York, N.Y. : 42nd Street) Johnson Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.) New York Boxing Writers Association (Organization)
Profession or occupation	Journalists Jazz musicians Pianists Periodical editors
Special note	Machine-derived authority record.
Found in	LCCN 93-702073: "South side shake" 1945-1951, 199-? South Side shake, 1946: label (Dan Burley) container (managing editor of Amsterdam news, Harlem, New York City; jazz pianist; b. Kentucky and taken to Chicago in 1917 at age of 10) Dan Burley's jive, 2009: ECIP t.p. (Dan Burley) galley (Daniel Gardner Burley; b. Nov. 7, 1907 in Lexington, KY) Wikipedia, 2009; (Dan Burley; died Oct. 30, 1962 in Chicago, Ill.) African American National Biography, accessed Janyary 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Burley, Dan; Daniel Gardner Burley; journalist, jazz musician, pianist, sportswriter, magazine and journal editor/publisher; born 07 November 1907 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States; wrote for the Chicago Defender (1925-1928); worked for Chicago Bee (1932); was a correspondent for Associated Negro Press (1937); was a columnist for Amsterdam News and New York Age; recorded with Lionel Hampton, Dan's Circle Session (1946); appeared in Dizzy Gillespie film Jivin' in Be-Bop and acted as master of ceremonies for many of the variety shows at Harlem's Apollo Theater; the first African American member of New York Boxing Writers Association; associate editor of Johnson Publishing Company's Jet and Ebony magazines, Chicago (1951); managing editor for Chicago Crusader (1957); created his own weekly paper,The Owl; died 30 October, 1962.