ROBERTS, CHARLES LUCKEYETH

ROBERTS, CHARLES LUCKEYETH (LUCKEY). Jazz pianist (7 August 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 5 February 1968 in New York, New York). He played piano at the age of five and toured as a child with an Uncle Tom's Cabin company; later he toured with Gus Seekes's Pickaninnies and Mayme Remington's Ethiopian Prodigies. He first played piano professionally in nightclubs of Philadelphia. About 1910 he settled in New York and soon established himself as one of the leading nightclub pianists...