LC control no. | nr 95000543 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Albertson, Chris |
Variant(s) | Albertson, Christiern Gunnar |
Associated place | Keflavík (Iceland) |
Located | Copenhagen (Denmark) Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Birth date | 1931-10-18 |
Death date | 2019-04-24? |
Place of birth | Reykjavík (Iceland) |
Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937 Blues (Music) Jazz |
Profession or occupation | Musicologists Biographers |
Found in | Alberta Hunter interviews and performances collection, [1921-1985] [SR]: sound cassette (Chris Albertson; musicologist) Albertson, C. Bessie, c2003: ECIP t.p. (Chris Albertson) ECIP data (b. Oct. 18, 1931) New York times WWW site, viewed May 10, 2019 (in obituary published May 9: Chris Albertson; b. Christiern Gunnar Albertson, Oct. 18, 1931, Reykjavik, Iceland; was living in Copenhagen in 1947 when he first heard Bessie Smith on a tiny radio speaker; by 1955 he had moved back to his homeland and was a disc jockey for Armed Forces Radio in Keflavik; two years later he emigrated to the U.S., where he found radio work in Philadelphia; moved to New York in the 1960s; found dead Apr. 24, Manhattan, aged 87; produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of Bessie Smith's recordings and wrote an equally acclaimed biography) |
Associated language | eng |