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Dink Johnson

Born:

Dink Johnson - piano, clarinet, drums (1892 - 1954) Dink Johnson was a multi talented musician who played a swinging, stomping, Jelly Roll like piano, was in a seminal band on drums and piano, and also recorded on clarinet in early jazz history He had a repertoire of tunes as unique as his style, containing many tunes of his own and other tunes long forgotten. Dink had a rollicking, contagious sense of humor which comes through on his recordings. Ollie ‘Dink’ Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, younger brother of bass player/bandleader Bill Johnson, who was King Oliver's great bassist

Album

Mr. Johnson Signing Off

By Dink Johnson

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1950


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