Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, son of Edward L. Robbins and Addie Clork Everett Robbins moved to Chicago in 1916 and studied at the American Conservatory of Music. Lineups of his bands in the 1920s, such as Everett and his Syncopated Robins, included Eddie Vincent, 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.