Elmer Chester Snowden (October 9, 1900 – May 14, 1973) was an American banjo player of the jazz age. He also played guitar and, in the early stages of...
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Cincinnati Reds Elmer Snowden (1900–1973), American jazz musician Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930), American inventor and entrepreneur Elmer Steele (1886–1966)...
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sax and finally settled on alto saxophone; Arthur Whetsel on trumpet; Elmer Snowden on banjo; and Sonny Greer on drums. The band thrived, performing for...
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melanges". With a script written by A. Dorian Otvos, the film features Elmer Snowden and his Orchestra who perform the "Bugle Call Rag" and other tunes....
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Holiday. In Baltimore he attended a boys' school with the banjo player Elmer Snowden. Both of them played banjo with various Baltimore jazz bands, including...
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programs Elmer Snowden (1900–1973), American jazz musician Ethel Snowden (1881–1951), British socialist and feminist politician George Holburn Snowden (1901–1990)...
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Musical Spillers led by Willie Lewis in the early 1920s, then with Elmer Snowden, Horace Henderson, Fletcher Henderson, Fess Williams, and McKinney's...
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Orchestra recorded the song "Lindbergh Hop", written by Ted Nixon and Elmer Snowden, on May 25, 1927. The Memphis Jug Band on September 13, 1928 recorded...
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Jackson and banjoist Elmer Snowden. From 1923 to 1924, Nanton worked with Frazier's Harmony Five. A year later, he performed with Snowden. At the age of 22...
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1923. At the time, Ellington's Washingtonians were formally led by Elmer Snowden, but Ellington, who factually had already been running the formation...
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"Blues and Ballads," recorded in 1960 with Lonnie Johnson and guitarist Elmer Snowden, a renowned banjoist/guitarist from the 1920s. Epstein, Dena (1977)...
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Blues & Ballads (category Elmer Snowden albums)
guitar accompanied by Elmer Snowden on acoustic guitar and Wendell Marshall on bass. This was the first commercial recording by Snowden in 26 years. The same...
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Johnny Hodges in Chick Webb's ensemble. Following this he played with Elmer Snowden (1931–32), then led his own groups between 1933 and 1941. In the early...
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September 28 – Joe Falcon, Cajun accordionist (d.1965) October 9 – Elmer Snowden, banjo player (d.1973) October 19 – Erna Berger, coloratura soprano...
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sessions with Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, Bud Freeman, Ray Bryant, and Elmer Snowden. In the mid-1960s, Albertson worked at NYC radio station WNEW, leaving...
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revue to perform in Europe and South America until 1927. Banjo player Elmer Snowden, whose band played at the Smalls Paradise Sunday matinees, would often...
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he played with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, Bobby Brown's Syncopaters, Elmer Snowden, Billy Fowler, Thomas Morris, Willie Gant, and Cliff Jackson. In 1929...
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