JONES, IRVING

JONES, IRVING. Songwriter/Vaudeville entertainer (c1874; 11 March 1932 in New York, New York). Little is known of his early life. He first attracted attention as a member of Sam T. Jack's Burlesque Company in 1890 and was a member of Jack's Creole Company (1890), along with Sam and Carrie Lucas, Fred Piper , and Billy Jackson , among others. He then played with John Isham's Octoroons (1895-97); Will Marion Cook's Jes Lak White Folks (summer 1899), which starred...