Henry Clark  http://kimclarke.8m.com/elders.html

Originally based in Chicago , Marion Hardy's Alabamians relocated to New York in the late 1920's. In this October 1929 photo they posed at the famed Savoy Ballroom fronted by Cab Calloway. The Alabamians made their only recording at that time called "Georgia Pine and the Song of the Bayou".My Grandfather, trombonist Henry Clark,Sr. is seated (above)in the last seat on the front row.It is stated that the dearth of further recordings can probably be attibuted to the Crash of 1929 a few days thereafter.

This image is taken from a band promotional picture simply named "BRASS".

Henry Clark,Sr. was born in British Guiana(Guyana),South America in the early 1900's. He came to America and lived with his Grandmother in Harlem as a young man. When he received his musical calling he toured often, performing on trombone with Vaudevillian shows.He also was one of the HArlemites who formed the Black Musicians Union which is still extant today in Harlem . His travels took him to Chicago where upon he and my Grandmother, Annette Walrond Clark, and my father resettled , for a time,seeking a better level of work for musicians. Grandfather was a strict disciplinarian who insisted that my Father study the piano seriously, as he had exhibited a strong musical sense.Grandfather played the string bass in the latter days of his musical career.He remarried and is survived by wife Elizabeth and sons:percussionist/ merchant seaman Brett (RIP) and police officer Kevin.