{{Infobox musical artist | name = Everett Robbins | image = EverettRobbins1924.png | caption = Robbins, with a record player, from a 1924 publication | image_size = | birth_name = Everett Robbins | alias = | birth_date = {{birth year|1899}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1926|4|16|1899}} | origin = Muskogee, Oklahoma, U.S. | instrument = Piano | genre = Jazz<br />Blues | occupation = Pianist, bandleader, composer | years_active = | label = | website = | current_members = | past_members = }}
'''Everett "Happy"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=T5ZqkgzSFRMC&dq=Everett+Robbins+jazz+hounds&pg=PA58 Hennessey, Thomas (1994) ''From Jazz to Swing: African American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890 - 1935'', p. 58. Wayne State University Press] At Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> Robbins''' (1899 – April 16, 1926) was a Chicago-based pianist,<ref name=himpsl>[https://archive.today/20130629081258/http://frankhimpslarchive.com/Page_5.html Frank Himpsl Archive "Everett Robbins"] Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> bandleader and composer.
Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1899,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Dinosaur Discs |url=http://archive.org/details/RecordResearch61 |title=Record Research 61 |date=July 1964}}</ref> he moved to Chicago in 1916 and studied at the American Conservatory of Music.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ei7aAAAAMAAJ&q=Everett+Robbins+band ''Record Research'', Numbers 57-72. Record Research., 1964] at Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> He started his musician career in 1919 as a pianist for James Like's orchestra.<ref name=":0" />
Lineups of his bands in the 1920s, such as Everett and his Syncopated Robins, included Eddie Vincent,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=M8Zw7lmvLvAC&dq=Everett+Robbins+band&pg=PT393 Gushee, Lawrence (2005) ''Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band'', p. 246. Oxford University Press] at Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> Benney Fields, Jimmy Dudley, William Hoy, and Henry Johnson,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yCHJQ-Qc6zkC&dq=Everett+Robbins+rolls&pg=PA404 Gibbs, Craig Martin (2012) ''Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography'', p. 196. McFarland] At Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> while Everett Robbins' Jazz Screamers included Bob Shoffner.<ref>Yanow, Scott [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-shoffner-mn0002154782 Biography: Bob Shoffner] allmusic. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref>
As well as leading his own bands, he also recorded, as a pianist, in 1922, with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, coinciding with Garvin Bushell, Coleman Hawkins, Bubber Miley and Herb Flemming.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yCHJQ-Qc6zkC&dq=Everett+Robbins+rolls&pg=PA404 Gibbs, Craig Martin (2012) ''Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography'', p. 111-2. McFarland] At Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref>
Robbins made piano rolls for the Capitol Roll & Record Company<ref name=himpsl/> and is possibly most known for "Ain't Nobody's Business", a song he co-wrote with Porter Grainger in 1922. Both pianists played in Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds around the same time, but as they played the same instrument, they are unlikely to have coincided.
He died in April 16, 1926, following a year of illness, when he was only 27 years old.<ref name=":0" />
==Discography== ===As leader/co-leader=== *1923: "Hard Luck Blues"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yCHJQ-Qc6zkC&dq=Everett+Robbins+rolls&pg=PA404 Gibbs, Craig Martin (2012) ''Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography'', p. 404. McFarland] At Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> *1991: ''Boogie Woogie Blues''<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/boogie-woogie-blues-mw0000264317 ''Boogie Woogie Blues''] AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref> *2001: ''Jazz & Blues Piano, Vol. 2: 1924-1947''<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-blues-piano-vol-2-1924-1947-mw0000114771 "Credits"] AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2013.</ref>
===As sideman=== *1922: with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds
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== External links == * [https://archive.org/details/RecordResearch61 ''They called him 'Happy' Everett Robbins''], article by Len Kunstadt in ''Record Research'' issue #61 (July 1964).
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