Personal Life
In 2007, while assembling material for the producers of a documentary film about him (A Colored Life), Jeffries found his birth certificate; this reminded him that he actually was born in 1913 and that he had misrepresented his age after he left home to look for a job. His four marriages (including one to exotic dancer Tempest Storm) produced five children. He has a large extended family. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Savannah. He appeared at jazz festivals and events benefiting autism and other developmental problems and lectured at colleges and universities. He supported music education in schools. In June 2010, aged 96, Jeffries performed to raise funds for the Oceanside (California) Unified School District's music program, accompanied by the Big Band Jazz Hall of Fame Orchestra under the direction of clarinetist Tad Calcara. This benefit concert was his second (the previous concert was in 2001).
He now lives in Wichita, Kansas. http://www.ksn.com/content/news/editorschoice/story/Entertainer-Herb-Jeffries-calls-Wichita-home/bKk5pXdz2UyyupnUtEDN9Q.cspx
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