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Albertson, Chris

LC control no.nr 95000543
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingAlbertson, Chris
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Variant(s)Albertson, Christiern Gunnar
Associated placeKeflavík (Iceland)
LocatedCopenhagen (Denmark) Philadelphia (Pa.)
Birth date1931-10-18
Death date2019-04-24?
Place of birthReykjavík (Iceland)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activitySmith, Bessie, 1894-1937
Blues (Music) Jazz
Profession or occupationMusicologists Biographers
Found inAlberta 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 languageeng