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Walter Barnes

b. 8 July 1905, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, d. 23 Apr 1940, Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Barnes analyzed clarinet and saxophone before making a decision to create his own music group in 1926. Initially he led just a quartet but this extended into a larger music group. Barnes and his Royal Creolians …

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Walter Barnes

Wherever the expression “he’s burning up!” originated from to be able to describe a jazz participant who is especially inspired, it really had nothing in connection with the terrible fate which fulfilled the users of Walter Barnes & His Royal Creolians. All eight users of the group, plus 193 other …

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