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John Spikes
geboren am 22.7.1881 in Dallas, TX, USA
gestorben am 28.6.1955
Alias John C. Spikes
John Spikes
John Curry Spikes (July 22, 1881 - June 28, 1955) was an American jazz musician and entrepreneur.
Along with his brother Reb Spikes, John ran a traveling show band in early 1900s. At one point, Jelly Roll Morton was a member of the band.[1] In around 1915, the Spikes were performing in San Francisco under the name The Original So-Different Orchestra, with Reb Spikes billed as the "World's Greatest Saxophonist".[2]
Around 1919, they then settled in Los Angeles, where they started a music store, a nightclub, an agency and a publishing house.[1]
They were the first to record an all-black jazz band in 1922.[1] In 1927, they shot a short sound film that predated The Jazz Singer, the first full-length sound film.[1] Their most enduring musical collaborations were writing the lyrics to Morton's "Wolverine Blues" and their own composition, "Someday Sweetheart", which has become a jazz standard.[3]
Notes
- 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Rough Guide to Jazz. Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley and Charles Alexander. Rough Guides, 2004. pp. 752-753. ISBN 1-84353-256-5
- Floyd Levin: "The Spikes brothers - a Los Angeles saga", Jazz Journal, December 1951
- Someday Sweetheart at jazzstandards.com - retrieved on 7 May 2009
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