John Kirby

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Undecided 00:00 Tools
From A Flat To C 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
Rehearsin' for a Nervous Breakdown 00:00 Tools
By The Waters Of Minnetonka (10-28-38) 00:00 Tools
Front and Center 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy 00:00 Tools
Royal Garden Blues 00:00 Tools
Effervescent Blues 00:00 Tools
Beethoven Riffs On 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Anitra's Dance 00:00 Tools
Coquette 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' in the Pump Room 00:00 Tools
Dawn On the Desert 00:00 Tools
Blues Petite 00:00 Tools
From Ab to C 00:00 Tools
Pastel Blue (Blue Dilemma) 00:00 Tools
20th Century Closet 00:00 Tools
Charlie's Prelude 00:00 Tools
Opus 5 00:00 Tools
Zooming At the Zombie 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
Close Shave 00:00 Tools
Rose Room 00:00 Tools
No Blues At All 00:00 Tools
Chloe 00:00 Tools
It Feels Good 00:00 Tools
Andiology 00:00 Tools
Minute Waltz 00:00 Tools
It Feels So Good 00:00 Tools
Humoresque 00:00 Tools
9:20 Special 00:00 Tools
Little Brown Jug 00:00 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends 00:00 Tools
Serenade 00:00 Tools
I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) 00:00 Tools
Then I'll Be Happy 00:00 Tools
Milumbu 00:00 Tools
Temptation 00:00 Tools
Frasquita Serenade 00:00 Tools
Double Talk 00:00 Tools
The Turf 00:00 Tools
Move Over 00:00 Tools
One Alone 00:00 Tools
Bugler's Dilemma 00:00 Tools
Fifi's Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
Tunisian Trail 00:00 Tools
Wondering Where 00:00 Tools
Night Whispers 00:00 Tools
Tweed Me 00:00 Tools
Loch Lomond 00:00 Tools
Rehearsin' For A Nervous Breakdown (10-28-38) 00:00 Tools
Keep Smilin' 00:00 Tools
Comin' Back 00:00 Tools
Crossroads 00:00 Tools
Toselli's Serenade 00:00 Tools
On a Little Street in Singapore 00:00 Tools
I Love You Truly 00:00 Tools
Do You Savvy 00:00 Tools
Rhumba In The Dark 00:00 Tools
Schubert's Serenade 00:00 Tools
Impromptu 00:00 Tools
Go Your Way 00:00 Tools
From A Flat To C (10-28-38) 00:00 Tools
Opus Five 00:00 Tools
Pastel Blue 00:00 Tools
Drink To Me With Thine Eyes 00:00 Tools
Blues Skies 00:00 Tools
At The Crossroads 00:00 Tools
Mop Mop 00:00 Tools
Fantasy Impromptu 00:00 Tools
Betthoven Riffs On 00:00 Tools
9.20 Special 00:00 Tools
Echoes of Harlem 00:00 Tools
By The Waters Of The Minnetonka 00:00 Tools
Shoo-Shoo Baby 00:00 Tools
The peanut vendor 1943 00:00 Tools
Sextet From 'Lucia' 00:00 Tools
Cuttin' The Campus 00:00 Tools
9-20 Special 00:00 Tools
The Lady Is A Tramp 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies (08-10-39) 00:00 Tools
Anitra's Dance (05-19-39) 00:00 Tools
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes 00:00 Tools
Undecided (10-28-38) 00:00 Tools
Lucia (Sextet) 00:00 Tools
Effervescent Blues (01-09-39) 00:00 Tools
Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland) 00:00 Tools
Prelude for Trumpet 00:00 Tools
By The Waters Of Minnetonka 00:00 Tools
The Peanut Vendor 00:00 Tools
You Go Your Way 00:00 Tools
Fantasy Impromptu (08-10-39) 00:00 Tools
Blue Fantasy 00:00 Tools
It Feels So Good (01-09-39) 00:00 Tools
Humoresque (10-12-39) 00:00 Tools
Saint Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Minute Waltz (05-19-39) 00:00 Tools
The Turf (01-09-39) 00:00 Tools
Front And Center (07-28-39) 00:00 Tools
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (05-19-39) 00:00 Tools
Twentieth Century Closet 00:00 Tools
One Alone (10-12-39) 00:00 Tools
10. Pastel Blue 00:00 Tools
Bounce On The Sugar Plum Fairy (01-15-41) 00:00 Tools
Original Dixieland One-Step 00:00 Tools
Royal Garden Blues (07-28-39) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown (05-19-39) 00:00 Tools
Dawn On The Desert (01-09-39) 00:00 Tools
Pastel Blue (10-28-38) 00:00 Tools
Peanut Vendor 00:00 Tools
Little Brown Jug (10-12-39) 00:00 Tools
I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) (08-10-39) 00:00 Tools
Opus 5 (07-28-39) 00:00 Tools
Nocturne (10-12-39) 00:00 Tools
Revolutionary Etude 00:00 Tools
Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairies 00:00 Tools
Whirlaway 00:00 Tools
Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland) (08-10-39) 00:00 Tools
Arabian Nightmare 00:00 Tools
Milumbu (04-22-40) 00:00 Tools
Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) 00:00 Tools
Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider 00:00 Tools
Serenade (10-12-39) 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' In The Pump Room (04-22-40) 00:00 Tools
Schubert's Serenade (c. 10/11-41) 00:00 Tools
Blue Dilemma 00:00 Tools
Rustle Of Spring #1 00:00 Tools
Close Shave (07-25-41) 00:00 Tools
Zooming At The Zombie (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Milumba 00:00 Tools
Beethoven Riffs On (01-15-41) 00:00 Tools
Martha, My Dear 00:00 Tools
Sextet From "Lucia" 00:00 Tools
Double Talk (01-15-41) 00:00 Tools
Drink To Me Only With Think Eyes 00:00 Tools
On A Little Street In Singapore (05-27-40) 00:00 Tools
9:20 Special (11-?-43) 00:00 Tools
20th Centruy Closet (04-22-40) 00:00 Tools
You Go Your Way (04-22-40) 00:00 Tools
Keep Smilin’ 00:00 Tools
Mop Mop (04-26-45) 00:00 Tools
Cuttin' The Campus (01-15-41) 00:00 Tools
Andiology (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Sextet from Lucia 00:00 Tools
Ripples 00:00 Tools
J.K. Special 00:00 Tools
You Go To My Head 00:00 Tools
Anita's Dance 00:00 Tools
Rustle Of Spring #2 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Paper Moon (07-25-41) 00:00 Tools
Temptation (05-27-40) 00:00 Tools
The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) 00:00 Tools
Cutting The Campus 00:00 Tools
Frasquita Serenade (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
1943 00:00 Tools
Passipied 00:00 Tools
Peanut Vendor Boogie (01-03-46) 00:00 Tools
Sextet From "Lucia" (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Chloe (05-27-40) 00:00 Tools
Shoo Shoo Baby 00:00 Tools
Fifi’s Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues ( 11 Février 1942 ) 00:00 Tools
I Love You Truly (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Peanut Vendor Boogie 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Then I'll Be Happy (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Blues Petite (05-27-40) 00:00 Tools
Beethoven Riffs 00:00 Tools
El Manisero (1943) 00:00 Tools
Shubert's Serenade 00:00 Tools
El Manisero - 1943 00:00 Tools
Comin’ Back 00:00 Tools
Coquette (c. 01/02-41) 00:00 Tools
It’s Only A Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
K.C. Caboose 00:00 Tools
Front And Centre 00:00 Tools
(The Anniversary Of) Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day 00:00 Tools
I'm Scared (01-09-45) 00:00 Tools
The Peanut Vendor (1943) 00:00 Tools
Then I'll Be Happy (I Wanna Go Where You Go - Do What You Do) 00:00 Tools
Coquette (07-09-40) 00:00 Tools
Jumping at the Pump 00:00 Tools
Rustle Of Spring 00:00 Tools
Double Talk (A Fugue) 00:00 Tools
Rehearsing for a Nervous Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Bugler’s Dilemma 00:00 Tools
Tunisian Trail (11-?-43) 00:00 Tools
Schubert’s Serenade 00:00 Tools
Dengozo 00:00 Tools
I Could Make You Love Me (01-09-45) 00:00 Tools
Sugar Plum 00:00 Tools
It Might As Well Be Spring 00:00 Tools
Desert Sands 00:00 Tools
Someday Sweetheart (Recorded, 1939) [Live] 00:00 Tools
I Could Make You Love Me 00:00 Tools
Mr. Haydn Gets Hep 00:00 Tools
Bugler's Dilema (07-25-41) 00:00 Tools
Keep Smilin' (02-11-42) 00:00 Tools
Night Whispers (10-07-41) 00:00 Tools
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 00:00 Tools
Keep Smiling, Keep Laughing 00:00 Tools
You Go To My Head (01-09-45) 00:00 Tools
Natchez Ball 00:00 Tools
Once Alone 00:00 Tools
Toselli’s Serenade 00:00 Tools
Can’t We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Beethoven Riffs On (Symphony 7, mvt 2) 00:00 Tools
Minute Wlatz 00:00 Tools
CrossRoads (11-?-43) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues (02-11-42) 00:00 Tools
Slowly 00:00 Tools
These Charming People 00:00 Tools
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John Kirby (December 31, 1908 – June 14, 1952), was a jazz double-bassist who played the trombone as well as tuba. Kirby was born in Winchester, Virginia. In 1926 he moved to Baltimore, Maryland, a town he is still linked to by some. He played with Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson (where during the early 1930s, he performed some amazingly complicated tuba work on a number of Henderson's recordings) before starting his own band in 1937. His John Kirby's Sextet "The Onyx Club Boys" (usually included himself on bass, Charlie Shavers on trumpet, Buster Bailey on clarinet, Russell Procope on alto saxophone, Billy Kyle on piano and O'Neil Spencer on drums) would become one of the more significant "small groups" in a Big band era and had the first recording of the song "Undecided". He tended toward a lighter classical influenced style of jazz, which has strong defenders and critics. He was very prolific and popular from 1938-1941. After World War II his career declined and he died in Hollywood, California, just before a planned comeback. In 1993 he was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. Unlike other then-popular "novelty" jazz groups (like Raymond Scott), Kirby is not particularly well remembered today; his small group light jazz style is a great example how swing can also be quite elegant. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.