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Among the just jazzmen whose nickname commonly turns up on backstage riders, Robert “Juice” Wilson was in 14 years of age already executing with bandleaders such as for example trumpeter Freddie Keppard. He previously been orphaned 11 years previously, an uncle in Chicago moving in to improve the lad inside …

b. Robert Edward Wilson, 21 January 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Elevated in Chicago, Wilson performed drums within a young boys’ music group, then used the violin. He performed in various rings in night clubs in Chicago and in addition on pleasure ships. In the 20s he was mainly in …