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Jabbo Oltmanns
Jabbo is a nickname. People with the name include: *Jabbo Andrews (1907–1964), American baseball player *Jasper "Jabbo" Phillips, lead singer of American soul vocal trio The Temprees *Jabbo Smith Jabbo Smith (born Cladys Smith; December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was an American jazz musician, known for his virtuoso playing on the trumpet. Biography Smith was born in Pembroke, Georgia, United States. At the age of six he went into ... (1908–1991), American jazz musician See also * Jabo § People with the given name or nickname {{nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabbo Andrews
Herman Andrews (December 23, 1907 – July 1964), nicknamed "Jabbo", was an American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be .... He played from 1930 to 1943 with several teams. Baseball career Andrews played for eleven teams in ten seasons of baseball, which was spread over five different leagues (which included both incarnations of the Negro National League, the Negro American League, the Negro Southern League, and the East-West League). He had two breaks between his start in 1930 and finale in 1942. In four of his ten seasons, he played on multiples teams, and it was his 58 games with the Indianapolis ABCs (1931, 1932) that he played the most games with in a 263 game career. In 1930, he batted .357 in 67 games for Birmingham, Memphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper "Jabbo" Phillips
The Temprees are an American soul vocal trio from Memphis, Tennessee, most popular during the 1970s. The band released several albums on We Produce Records, an offshoot of Stax Records. In 1972, the band performed in front of more than 100,000 fans at the famous Wattstax festival in Los Angeles. History Originally formed as ''The Lovemen'', the trio—lead singer Jasper "Jabbo" Phillips, whose powerful falsetto featured on most of their recordings, Harold "Scotty" Scott and Deljuan "Del" Calvin—met in the mid-1960s, when they were in junior high school, along with Larry Dodson, future lead singer of The Bar-Kays. The group was first signed to Stax Records in 1970 by producer Josephine "Jo" Bridges on her 'We Produce' Stax subsidiary. Later, with the collapse of Stax, they moved briefly in 1976 to Epic Records, a subsidiary of CBS, for two singles. The band released three albums, ''Lovemen'', ''Love Maze'', and ''Temprees 3'' on We Produce, mainly produced by Bridges, Stax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabbo Smith
Jabbo Smith (born Cladys Smith; December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was an American jazz musician, known for his virtuoso playing on the trumpet. Biography Smith was born in Pembroke, Georgia, United States. At the age of six he went into the Jenkins Orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina where he learned trumpet and trombone, and by the age of 10 was touring with the Jenkins Band. At the age of 16 he had left the Orphanage to become a professional musician, at first playing in bands in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, before making his base in Manhattan, New York City, from about 1925 through 1928, where he made the first of his well regarded recordings. From February to May, 1928, Smith was featured in the band along with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson in the Waller/Andy Razaf Broadway musical and dance revue ''Keep Shufflin which ran for 104 performances. Later on in 1928 he toured with James P. Johnson's Orchestra, when their show broke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |