| LC control no. | no 98092273 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Robinson, Prince, 1902-1960 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1902-06-07 |
| Death date | 1960-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Portsmouth (Va.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Louis Armstrong Orchestra Ben Jones Band Quentin Redd Band Leon Abbey Orchestra Blanche Calloway Orchestra |
| Profession or occupation | Jazz musicians Clarinetists Saxophonists |
| Found in | Holiday, B. The quintessential Billie Holiday. Vol. V, 1937-38 [SR] p1989: booklet (Prince Robinson, clarinet) New Grove dict. of jazz (Robinson, Prince; b. June 7, 1902, Portsmouth, Va, d. July 23, 1960, New York; clarinetist, tenor saxophonist) African American National Biography, accessed April 7, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Robinson, Prince; jazz musician, clarinetist, saxophonist; born 07 June, 1902 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States; educated in high school in Norfolk; played at Ben Jones band, Lillian Jones's Jazz Hounds, Norfolk (1919-1921), Quentin Redd's band in Atlantic City, New Jersey (1922), Lionel Howard's Musical Aces, in New York City (1923), Nest Club band, Seminole Syncopators (1924); joined Duke Ellington's Washingtonians, Kentucky Club (1925-1927); toured South America with Leon Abbey's orchestra (1927); played with Detroit-based McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Jean Goldkette's Graystone Ballroom, Detroit, then New York City's Roseland Ballroom (1927), private campus clubs (1929), Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, Culver City, California (1931); freelance sideman on several recording sessions (1929, 1930, 1937); recorded sessions with Blanche Calloway's orchestra (1935-1937), Roy Eldridge's orchestra, New York City's Arcadia Ballroom (1938,1939), Louis Armstrong's orchestra (1940, 1941, 1942); freelancer in and around New York City, worked with various musicians (1945-1954); worked with Fredi Washington's Dixiecrats, Queens (1955-1959); died 23 July, 1960 in New York, New York, United States) |
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