John Lindsay (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American jazz musician
Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1894
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jul-1950
Profession: musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About John Lindsay (musician)
- John Lindsay, also Johnny Lindsay or John Lindsey (born August 23, 1894, New Orleans - died July 3, 1950, Chicago) was an American jazz double-bassist and trombonist, active in the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes. Lindsay learned both instruments while young and played trombone in a military band and in ensembles late in the 1910s.
- In New Orleans, he played with John Robichaux and A.J.
- Piron's Olympia Orchestra; Lindsay was Piron's trombonist on recordings made in New York City in 1923-1924.
- He was in Dewey Jackson's riverboat band in 1924, then relocated to Chicago, where he played with Willie Hightower, Carroll Dickerson, Lil Hardin, and Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers.
- Most of his playing in Chicago and subsequently was on bass rather than trombone.
- Later in his career he toured nationally with Louis Armstrong (1931–32), Richard M.
- Jones, Jimmie Noone, Punch Miller, Johnny Dodds, Chippie Hill, Georgia White, Harlem Hamfats, and Baby Dodds.
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