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Milt Larkin led one of the biggest of all place rings but, tragically, it never recorded and will just be regarded as legendary. Larkin was a self-taught trumpeter, motivated to try out after hearing Bunk Johnson. He freelanced throughout Tx, including with Chester Boone and Giles Mitchell’s Birmingham Blue Blowers. …

b. Milton Larkin, 10 Oct 1910, Navaseta, Houston, Tx, USA, d. 31 August 1996, Houston, Tx, USA. After teaching himself to try out trumpet, Larkin caused various minor place rings, including those led by Chester Boone and Giles Mitchell. In 1936 he shaped a music group for an engagement at …