William Overend Priestley
Sir William Overend Priestley( 24 June 1829 – 11 April 1900) was a British physician and Conservative Party politician.
He served as Member of Parliament( MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1896 to 1900.
Priestley was born in Leeds and trained in Edinburgh as an obstetrician and gynecologist.
He moved to London in 1856, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1893 in recognition of his medical services.
Mabel Robinson Simms
Mable Robinson Simms, (born March 29, 1914, Cape Charles, Virginia, died January 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an African American jazz pianist and singer
, she performed with notable jazz musicians, also as Mabel Robinson, in the 1940–950s, including Louis Jordan, Sammy Price, Skeets Tolbert, Sammy Davis Sr., Roy Haynes, Pearl Bailey, The 4 Blackamours, and released another album on her own.
She was born in Cape Charles, Virginia, raised in Norfolk and with her family, moved to Boston in 1931.
Her voice was signatory for being remarkably capable in both the jazz and blues arenas and she was a talented pianist.
This would land her guest singing roles with Sammy Price, Louis Jordan and Skeets Tolbert.
William Overend Priestley
Sir William Overend Priestley( 24 June 1829 – 11 April 1900) was a British physician and Conservative Party politician.
He served as Member of Parliament( MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1896 to 1900.
Priestley was born in Leeds and trained in Edinburgh as an obstetrician and gynecologist.
He moved to London in 1856, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1893 in recognition of his medical services.
Carl Pruitt
Carl Briggs Pruitt( June 3, 1918, Birmingham, Alabama- June 1977) was an American jazz and blues double- bassist.
Pruitt began his career as a pianist, but switched to bass in 1937.
He played briefly in Pittsburgh and worked in the 1940s with Roy Eldridge, the Jeter- Pillars Orchestra, Lucky Millinder, Maxine Sullivan, Cootie Williams, and Mary Lou Williams.
In the 1950s he did some touring, with Earl Hines and the Sauter- Finegan Orchestra, but was active mostly as a sideman and session musician for recordings, including with Shorty Baker, Arnett Cobb, Eddie" Lockjaw" Davis, Bill Doggett, Wynonie Harris, Bull Moose Jackson, Roland Kirk, George Shearing, Sahib Shihab, and Hal Singer.
Pruitt did not perform or record frequently in the 1960s or 1970s, though he did play with Woody Herman at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 and record with Ray Nance in 1969.
He did a tour in France with Doc Cheatham and Sammy Price in 1975.
Sammy Price
Samuel Blythe Price( October 6, 1908 – April 14, 1992) was an American jazz, boogie- woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader.
Price's playing is dark, mellow, and relaxed rather than percussive, and he was a specialist at creating the appropriate mood and swing for blues and rhythm and blues recordings.
Tap (film)
Tap is a 1989 dance drama film written and directed by Nick Castle and starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.
William Overend
William Overend( 1809 – 24 December 1884) was a British Conservative politician.
After unsuccessful standing for election at Sheffield in 1852 and 1857, Overend was first elected Conservative MP for Pontefract in 1859.
However, he resigned later that year by becoming the Steward of the Manor of Hempholme.
Lem Johnson
Lemuel Charles" Lem" Johnson( August 6, 1909 – April 1, 1989) was an American jazz saxophonist who played both tenor and soprano saxophones.
Johnson was born in Oklahoma City.
He played clarinet in local ensembles in the 1920s and picked up saxophone in 1928, playing with Walter Page's Blue Devils.
Early in the 1930s he played in the band of Grant Moore( 1931 – 35) in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, and then worked with Eli Rice and Earl Hines.
In 1937 he moved to New York, where he played with Fess Williams, Luis Russell and Louis Jordan, and joined Skeets Tolbert's band in 1939.
In Tolbert's group Johnson sang in addition to playing sax.
He recorded with Buster Harding, Eddie Durham, Edgar Hayes, Sidney Bechet, Claude Hopkins, St. Louis Jimmy, Sam" The Man" Taylor and Sammy Price, and also cut some sessions as a leader, which have subsequently been released on compact disc.
He also recorded with Johnny Long and his Orchestra on Coral Records( 9-61478).
After the 1940s he went into semi-retirement and occasionally played into the 1960s.
Johnson died in New York City.
Geoff Bull
Geoffrey Randolph Bull( born 26 May 1942, Sydney) is an Australian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Bull played with the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band in 1961, then formed his own group, the Olympia Jazz Band, in Sydney; his sidemen included guitar/ banjoist Geoff Holden, clarinetist Peter Neubauer, and bassist Dick Edser.
The group played often at the Brooklyn and Orient hotels in Sydney.
He toured internationally in 1966- 67 and recorded with Alton Purnell, Barry Martyn, and Captain John Handy.
He returned to New Orleans in 1974 and several times thereafter, recording with many local musicians.
Additionally, he arranged for musicians such as Purnell and Sammy Price to tour Australia.
David Young (saxophonist, 1912-1992)
David A." Dave" Young( January 14, 1912- December 25, 1992) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Young was born in Nashville but raised in Chicago, where he joined a band made up of newsboys from the" Chicago Defender".
In the 1930s he worked in the bands of Frankie Half Pint Jaxon, Fletcher Henderson, Carroll Dickerson, and Roy Eldridge.
He was with Horace Henderson in 1939- 1940, and during World War II worked with Walter Fuller, Lucky Millinder, and Sammy Price.
He was drafted into the U.S. Navy in 1944 and played in a military band until the end of the war, at which time he returned to Chicago and played with Dinah Washington.
In the 1950s Young left his career in music and returned to working for the" Chicago Defender", this time as an advertising executive.

Question: Do Sammy Price and William Overend have the same nationality?
Answer: no