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Among the great Earl Hines’ disciples (alongside Jess Stacy), Joe Sullivan’s design was ideal for the freewheeling jazz of Eddie Condon’s rings. Sullivan graduated through the Chicago Conservatory and was a significant contributor towards the Chicago jazz picture from the 1920s. He was in NY during the following 10 years …

The longer and convoluted dramatis personae of jazz is sprinkled with artists who had been fated to bear identical names. This historical musical world that provided the globe multiple Expenses Evanses, Joe Thomases, and Willie Smiths also created two distinctly different people called Joe Sullivan. Chicago’s Joe Sullivan (1906-1971) was …