Oral Histories
Do you have interesting remembrances, stories or anecdotes to share about Charleston or South Carolina African American and other jazz musicians who trained at the Jenkins Orphanage, Avery Normal Institute or other Charleston and South Carolina institutions? If so, contact us at (843) 953-5474 or chandlerk@cofc.edu. The following is a list of select CJI oral [...]
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Green, Jeffrey Collection
[Jenkins, Edmund Thornton, 1894-1926]; [Jenkins Orphanage Bands] The Jeffrey Green Collection consists of nearly 50 items of Edmund Thornton Jenkins from 1914-1925 and his educational, musical and political life in London and Paris, and the Jenkins Orphanage Bands. The collection includes photographs (taken by [...]
Smith, “Jabbo” Cladys (1908-1991)
Trumpeter, songwriter; born in Pembroke, Georgia and died in New York City; entered the Jenkins Orphanage in 1915, studied music, and played with the bands from 1918 until 1925; trumpeter with Sidney Bechet, James P. Johnson, Cecil Scott, Erskine Hawkins, Fats Waller and Earl “Fatha” Hines…
Smalls, “Cliff” Clifton (1918-2008)
Pianist, trombonist, composer and conductor for six decades; born in Charleston, attended Burke High School, and lived in a neighborhood of Charlston known as “Back the Green”; his father, Edward Smalls, a Charleston carpenter and musician, taught Smalls classical music at a young age…
Dash, St. Julian Bennett (1916-1974)
Tenor saxophonist, composer and stylist; graduate of Avery, 1934; oldest of seven sons of Ethel Capers and Charles St. Julian Dash of Charleston; at Avery, he played with the Night Hawk’s Orchestra, the Royal Crusaders, and the Carolina Cotton Pickers…
Carolina Cotton Pickers
The Carolina Cotton Pickers was the seminal touring band created in the 1920s from the roster of Jenkins Orphanage Band musicians. Some of the earliest musicians included Alonzo Mills, Walter Bash, John “Shadow” Wilson…
From Avery to Erskine Hawkins: Remembering St. Julian Bennett Dash
The program included live music by the Quentin Baxter Jazz Ensemble including“Tuxedo Junction,” co-written by Julian Dash, a media display of source material donated by the Dash Family, and Conversations in Jazz with oral history accounts from.
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