WEBSTER, BENJAMIN FRANCIS (BEN
). Jazz saxophonist ( in Kansas City, Missouri; in Amsterdam, the Netherlands). He studied violin and piano as a child and attended Wilberforce [Ohio] College. Early in his professional career he led a band in Kansas City, Missouri, called Rooster Ben and His Little Red Hens and later played piano for silent movies at Amarillo, Texas (1928). Thereafter he performed with various groups, including Clarence Love,
Billie Young
, and...