found: American National Biography, accessed March 05, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Grainger, Porter; jazz musician, pianist, dramatist, music editor/publisher, songwriter, bandleader; born 22 October 1891 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States; moved to New York around (1920); played for non-blues singers, such as the West Indian Sam Manning; most important collaboration was with the blues singer Bessie Smith; recorded over a dozen sides for Columbia Records (1924-1928); made at least eight records as a bandleader, including four with the Get Happy Band (1925); toured with Aces and Queens (1923-1924); remained prolific as a theater songwriter (1930s); wrote the musical arrangements for Zora Neale Hurston's show From Sun to Sun; operated the Broadway Music Clinic and the Sun Tan Studios (1940s); died c.1955 in United States)
