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A user with 13 edits. Account created on 26 June 2019.
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13 May 2024

18 June 2023

8 April 2023

7 April 2023

  • 15:5515:55, 7 April 2023 diff hist −246 m Don ByasI recently traveled to Amsterdam, where the National Jazz Archives has a copy of Byas's birth certificate. It shows the year of his birth as 1913, which is also the date that appears in US Census forms. He changed it during World War II, possibly to make it less likely that he would be drafted. Tag: references removed

14 January 2021

8 February 2020

31 October 2019

  • 17:2417:24, 31 October 2019 diff hist +176 Johnny HodgesI am the author of Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges, published by Oxford University Press. I have added a few facts that have been left out of previous bios of Hodges, e.g., intervening stop in North Cambridge before moving to Boston, he had three sisters not one, etc. Tag: Visual edit

27 June 2019

26 June 2019

  • 17:4617:46, 26 June 2019 diff hist +5 m Johnny HodgesThe name "Johnny" does not appear on Hodges' birth certificate. His full name was simply Cornelius Hodges; he dropped "Cornelius" at a fairly young age and adopted his father's name. Tag: Visual edit
  • 17:4417:44, 26 June 2019 diff hist +456 m Johnny HodgesI am the author of Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges, to be published by Oxford University Press in September. I have added a few facts that have been left out of previous bios of Hodges, e.g., intervening stop in North Cambridge before moving to Boston, he had three sisters not one, etc. Tag: Visual edit