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“My brothers possess forsaken me personally!” might have been just how pianist Eddie White greeted the news headlines that Harry White and Willie White — a trombonist and mixture trumpeter and saxophonist, respectively — will be spending a more substantial part of their bandstand period dealing with the up-and-coming Duke …

Gil Light was an associate of the jazz dynasty made up of 3 brothers and two cousins, the Pa family members settling in Washington, D.C., before the ’20s and acquiring many possibilities in local dance bands, a few of them syncopated in a whole new method. A tenor saxophonist and …