Bertie King

Jamaican alto and tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist, born June 19, 1912 in Colón, Panama, died in the 1980s, probably in New York. King moved to England in 1935 where he played with Leslie Thompson and Ken "Snake Hips" Johnson in the Emperors of Jazz (1936-1937), performed and recorded with Benny Carter in Hague and Paris (1937-1938), recorded in London with Una Mae Carlisle (1938) and Johnson (1938, 1940). He led own band in London in 1943 and again in late 1940s. From 1951 to 1956 he made recordings of West Indian music.