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b. 7 Feb 1914, Trinidad, Western Indies, d. 24 August 1998, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Elevated in Venezuela, Barriteau discovered music within the Belmont Orphanage Music group as well as the Trinidad Constabulary Music group, becoming efficient on clarinet and alto saxophone. He found prominence in Britain as primary …

Bandleader Ken “Snakehips” Johnson was the leading superstar of Britain’s dark swing movement from the Globe War II period. Delivered Kenrick Reginald Hymans Johnson in Georgetown, United kingdom Guiana, on Sept 10, 1914, he went to Queens College before age group of 15, when his rich parents delivered him to …