John Lindsay (musician)
John Lindsay , also Johnny Lindsay, (born August 23, 1894 in New Orleans , † July 3, 1950 in Chicago ) was an American jazz musician ( bass , trombone ).
Lindsay started playing in his father's family band when he was a teenager. During his military service in World War I, he learned the trombone, which he used as a second instrument until the mid-1920s. As a bassist and trombonist, he played with John Robichaux in New Orleans and Armand J. Piron in New York City, where the first recordings were made in 1923. In Dewey Jackson's band he worked on river steamers; 1925 in Chicago with Willie Hightower , Carroll Dickerson , Lil Hardin and Jimmy Bell . Lindsay toured with Louis Armstrong in 1931/32 and then worked in Chicago for the last 25 years of his life. In the 1940s he led his own quartet there, with which he had an engagement in the music bar . Lindsay, who has participated in ninety recording sessions over the course of his career, has also appeared on records by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers (1926), Richard M. Jones , Harlem Hamfats (1936/37), Johnny Dodds , Jimmie Noone , Chippie Hill , Georgia White , Lil Johnson and Punch Miller heard.
Web links
- John Lindsay at Allmusic (English)
- John Lindsay at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindsay, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindsay, Johnny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (bass, trombone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23 August 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1950 |
| Place of death | Chicago |