Amos White

American jazz cornetist, born November 6, 1889 in Kingstree, South Carolina. White entered Jenkins' Orphanage at age of nine, toured with the orphanage band, performed with circus and minstrel groups 1913-1918, led army band in France. In 1919 settled in New Orleans, played with Oscar "Papa" Celestin, Armand J. Piron, and on riverboat with Fate Marable, with whom he performed intermittently until 1924. He may be heard with Marable on "Frankie and Johnny", the only record White ever made. Toured with Mamie Smith in 1927, worked as sideman and leader in Phoenix, Arizona after 1928 and in 1934 settled in Oakland, California; ceased full-time performing, but played occasionally into the 1960s.