About this minute
- Title
- Snakeships Swing by Ken "Snakeships" Johnson & The West Indian Orchestra
- Creator
- Ken “Snakeships” Johnson
- Collections
- Black Music Collection
Black Music Collection #1
This minute comes from a piece called Snakeships Swing by swing band leader and dancer Ken “Snakeships” Johnson. Kenrick Reginald Hijmans Johnson was born on the 10th of September 1914. Swing music is a form of jazz that developed in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The name came from the way the music was usually…
