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Thomas Jefferson

Among the finest trumpeters in New Orleans through the 1950s and 60s, Thomas Jefferson played drums and France horn briefly before buying trumpet. He caused Oscar Celestin’s Tuxedo Orchestra in 1936 and locally in New Orleans with Sidney Desvignes, Leap Jackson, among others. He documented in the 1950s with Johnny …

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