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Ollie Powers

Regardless of the strength evoked by his surname, Ollie Power had among the briefest of most jobs in jazz, succumbing to a kind of diabetes in 1928. He was a drummer and vocalist who led his personal rings, among which — Ollie Capabilities’ Tranquility Syncopators — was captured for posterity …

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