Everett Robbins

Everett "Happy" Robbins (1899 – April 16, 1926) was a Chicago-based pianist, bandleader and composer.

Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1899, he moved to Chicago in 1916 and studied at the American Conservatory of Music. He started his musician career in 1919 as a pianist for James Like's orchestra. Benney Fields, Jimmy Dudley, William Hoy, and Henry Johnson, while Everett Robbins' Jazz Screamers included Bob Shoffner.

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.

Robbins made piano rolls for the Capitol Roll & Record Company 1991: Boogie Woogie Blues 2001: Jazz & Blues Piano, Vol. 2: 1924-1947

As sideman 1922: with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds