Geechie Fields, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeechie Fields
American musician
Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1904
Date of Death: 15-Aug-1997
Profession: musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Geechie Fields
- Julius J.
- "Geechie" Fields (9 September 1904 – 15 August 1997) was an American jazz trombonist. Fields grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and learned to play trombone at the Jenkins Orphanage.
- In the early 1920s he became a touring member of the Jenkins Orphanage bands, then relocated to New York City, where he was a house musician at John O'Connor's club.
- He played with Earle Howard in 1926-27, recorded with Jelly Roll Morton in 1928 and 1930, and with Charlie Skeete and Bill Benford in 1929.
- He also worked with Clarence Williams and James P.
- Johnson.
- In the 1930s he married singer Myra Johnson but left music to become a boxing coach.
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