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Shirley Clay

Regardless of the femme-sounding name and credits burning the decidedly feminine Boswell Sisters, this swing-era jazz trumpeter isn’t a long-lost number to become put into the miniscule rates of feminine players out of this period. Shirley Clay was a Midwestern guy who started dealing with bands from your St. Louis …

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