Papa John Creach Professions : Violinist Born : May 28, 1917 Died : February 22, 1994 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Papa John Creach I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street Rag" and those kinds of things. Then I got to hanging around with a bunch of guys starting to playing jazz. We'd go from one place to the other and take our instruments, just perform for free. Papa John Creach playing-jazz rags guy We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm. Papa John Creach our-family farms children I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time. Papa John Creach pennsylvania long fall Similar Authors Bronislaw Huberman violinist Anne Akiko Meyers violinist Andre Rieu violinist Aleksey Igudesman violinist Itzhak Perlman violinist Isaac Stern violinist All Authors