Mabel Robinson Simms (Cape Charles, Virginia, March 29, 1914 - Boston, Massachusetts, January 27, 2005) was an American jazz and blues pianist. Ms. Simms was born in Cape Charles, Virginia on March 29, 1914, and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Her family moved to Boston in 1931, and it is in Boston where she took up playing the piano seriously. In the late 1930s, while still holding down a day job as a waitress at Slade's, she started working as a single at the Monterrey Cafe on Columbus Avenue. In 1940 she joined the group at Johnny Wilson's Swanee Grill. In 1944 she went to… read more
Mabel Robinson Simms (Cape Charles, Virginia, March 29, 1914 - Boston, Massachusetts, January 27, 2005) was an American jazz and blues pianist. Ms. Simms was born in Cape Charles, Virginia on March 29, 1914, and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Her family moved to Boston in 1931, and it is in Bos… read more
Mabel Robinson Simms (Cape Charles, Virginia, March 29, 1914 - Boston, Massachusetts, January 27, 2005) was an American jazz and blues pianist. Ms. Simms was born in Cape Charles, Virginia on March 29, 1914, and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. Her family moved to Boston in 1931, and it is in Boston where she took up playing the piano seriously. In the late 1930s, wh… read more
