June Clark (musician)

Algeria Junius "June" Clark ( born March 24, 1900 in Long Branch (New Jersey), † February 23, 1963 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist of early jazz.

Clark began as a child playing the piano, then switched to horn and trumpet, playing in local brass bands. He eventually took a job as a railroad conductor in New Orleans; in this way he came into the northeastern United States. Making his first appearance as a professional musician, he was in a musical revue called SH Dudley 's Black Sensations, in which he also played with James P. Johnson. Clark and Johnson finally got out of the show, came to Toledo (Ohio ), where they formed their own formation with Jimmy Harrison. In the 1920s, Clark moved to Philadelphia, where he played with Josephine Stevens and Willie "The Lion" Smith ( 1921-1922 ). He then worked in a traveling theater troupe Holiday in Dixie, but broke up in Detroit. At times, Clark worked in a Buick car factory, before he got back to Harr Sion and played with him in the Fess Williams band.

In 1924, Clark was living in New York City, where he performed with its own formation in various night clubs, such as the Small's, the Palace Gardens and the Tango Gardens. His appearance was one of the young Benny Carter and the Stide pianist Joe Turner. In 1925 he was a member of Perry Bradford's Studio Orchestra, 1927, he participated in recordings of Duke Ellington. He then played in the 1930s at Ferman Tapp, Jimmy Reynolds ( 1933-1935 ), George Baquet, Charlie Skeete and Vance Dixon; however, forced him an illness to retire from the active music scene; he was then a while as Road Manager for Louis Armstrong worked. In 1939, he contracted tuberculosis and stayed two years in a sanatorium. After his recovery, he worked as an assistant for Earl Hines. In the 1940s he shifted his activities to the sport of boxing and Sugar Ray Robinson was manager.