Tag Archives: The Dixie Stompers

The performing career of the historic jazz multi-instrumentalist lasted an excellent six decades, but Norman Mason’s musical life began even a decade earlier when his father began teaching him trumpet. Mason was a ripe eight years of age at that time but still surviving in the Bahamas, where he was …

The name Dixie Stompers was utilized by a number of traditional jazz bands. One was a septet that documented within the Midwest through the middle and past due ’50s. There is a Belgian septet utilizing the name that documented and peformed from 1944 to 1965, and for just one session …