BUSHELL, GARVIN PAYNE

BUSHELL, GARVIN PAYNE. Jazz clarinetist (25 September 1902 in Springfield, Ohio). He came from a musical family: both parents were voice teachers, and an uncle played clarinet. He began piano study at the age of six and clarinet study at thirteen. He attended Wilberforce University in Ohio and toured with traveling tent shows during vacation periods. In 1919 he settled in New York; thereafter he played in nightclubs and with various groups, including Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds, Ethel...