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 St. Cyr, Santo Pecora, and George Lewis. Of Jefferson’s very own infrequent sessions being a head, a 1960 time for Southland (where he is simply joined with a tempo section) is certainly definitive and a 1974 program for Storyville can be exceptional. Thomas Jefferson’s idol is definitely Louis Armstrong.