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Benjamin Franklin Spikes

aka Reb Spikes

Benjamin Franklin Spikes is credited on 676 releases across 234 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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676

Credits

234

Albums

8

Decades active

42

In collections

Biography

Born: 31st October 1888, Dallas, Texas, USA and died: 24th February 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
Please, use Spikes Brothers when that is used on the release, only then!
Spikes, also known as "Reb Spikes", was an American jazz saxophonist, jazz promoter, music publisher and entrepreneur, who's career highs spanned the 1920s & 1940s.
He co-wrote and published many pieces with his jazz-musician brother John Spikes, with whom he also had the band "The Original So-Different Orchestra".

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Credited work

676 releases · 234 albums · active 1950–2024

  • Performance · 697
  • Other credits · 4

Studios: The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto · Stea-Phillips · RCA Studios, New York · WOR Studios

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