JAZZ KING’S DEATH
J. BIRMINGHAM’S FATAL FALL Mr. John Birmingham, the jazz hand conductor and pioneer, met with a tragic death at his residence in Earl's Court Road. He had been suffering from sleeplessness, and had been receiving medical attention. Taking advanSs. • ot the fine weather, he went out on the balcony, and it is thought that he leaned over and overbalanced. He fell 40ft, and was fatally injured. Mr. Birmingham served in the Army during the war, and then became musical director at the Hotel Cecil, Later he organised a hand with which he appeared at the Hippodrome, the Coli seum, the Alhambra, and other music halls in London and throughout the | country.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 7
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