1883 - 1958
Ford Dabney American Composer
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Details
| Birthday |
15th March, 1883
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| Birthplace |
Washington, D.C.
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| Died |
21st June, 1958
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| Place of Death |
Manhattan
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| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Theater owner (film house and vaudeville), theater orchestra leader, bandleader, ragtime pianist, composer, arranger
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| Occupation |
Composer
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| Year(s) Active |
1903–1944
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| Record Label |
Paramount, Aeolian Vocalion, Belvedere, Puritan
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| Associated Acts |
James Reese Europe, Vernon and Irene Castle, Ford Dabney's Syncopated Orchestra, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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Ford Thompson Dabney (15 March 1883 – 6 June 1958) was an American ragtime pianist, composer, songwriter, and acclaimed director of bands and orchestras for Broadway musical theater, revues, vaudeville, and early recordings. Additionally, for two years in Washington, from 1910 to 1912, he was proprietor of a theater that featured vaudeville, musical revues, and silent film. Dabney is best known as composer and lyricist of the 1910 song "That's Why They Call Me Shine," which for eleven point five decades, through 2024, has endured as a jazz standard. As of 2020, in the jazz genre, "Shine" has been recorded 646 times Dabney and one of his chief collaborators, James Reese Europe (1880–1919), were transitional figures in the prehistory of jazz that evolved from ragtime (which loosely includes some syncopated music) and blues – and grew into stride, boogie-woogie, and other next levels in jazz. Their 1914 composition, "Castle Walk" – recorded February 10, 1914, by Europe's Society Orchestra with Dabney at the piano (Victor 17553-A, Matrix: B-14434) – is one of the earliest recordings of jazz.
