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Herbert Wright (born December 1897 Orangeburg, South Carolina).

Career

 * Jenkins Orphanage


 * 1918: 369th Infantry Regiment Band (aka Harlem Hellfighters Band)


 * George L. Dobyns (1871–1941) Shows, a carnival operation that wintered in York, Pennsylvania, pre- World War I (per WWI draft registration).


 * While performing with James Reese Europe, Herbert Wright shared billing with another snare drummer, Steve Wright (né Stephen Zymole Wright; 1892–1961), born in Charleston, South Carolina, and an alumnus of the Jenkins Orphanage. He also had served in the 369th Infantry Regiment Band.


 * Steve Wright, in 1921, recorded at least 5 sessions with Noble Sissle and His Sizzling Syncopators, one on Pathé Records and the others on Emerson Records. The other musicians were:


 * 1) Ontario-born Frank De Broite (né Jaçon Franklin De Broite; 1874–1962), trumpet
 * 2) Emporia, Kansas-born Frank Withers (né Frank Douglas Withers; 1880–1952), trombone
 * 3) Detroit-born Edgar Campbell (né Edgar O. Campbell; born 1889), clarinet, who also had played in Ford Dabney's (de) band
 * 4) Indianapolis-born Nelson Kincaid (né Nelson Leonard Kincaid; 1888–1956), alto sax
 * 5) Baltimore-born Eubie Blake (1887–1983), piano
 * "Loveless Love"


 * 1919–1927: Massachusetts State Prison, 106 Washington Street, Boston (married according to the 1920 U.S. Census)
 * 1933, Herbert and Lillie Wright lived at 23 Haskins Street, Roxbury, Boston. The directory indicates that he was an elevator at 136 Harrison Avenue. Roy Haynes, under his father's name, Gustavus Haynes, lived at 30 Haskins Street.

James Reese Europe
James Reese Europe in Boston at Mechanics Hall, during an intermission, berated a drummer, Herbert Wright, who became enraged and lunged at Europe with a pen knife. Wright was convicted of manslaughter and served 8 years of a 10-year sentence in a Massachusetts penitentiary.

After his release from the Massachusetts States Prison in Boston, March 30, 1927, he lived quietly in Roxbury, Boston, working as a dance band drummer. At some point he gave a neighborhood boy his first drum lesson. That boy was Roy Haynes. Haynes lived on the same street as Wright – Haskins Street, a street that was discontinued February 9, 1976.

Prison career

 * 1922 Program for a Concert by the Massachusetts State Prison Orchestra


 * 1920: Prison program

Family
Drayton was of Ethiopian descent, according to his Draft Registration for World War I.