Alphonse Picou High Society

http://www.20sjazz.com/videos/alphonse-picou/high-society-.html

> Alphonse Picou was born
into a middleclass Creole
family in New Orleans on
today's date in 1878.

As a clarinetist who played
a wide variety of music with
groups ranging from classical
orchestras to dance bands he
would become a celebrated
figure who was key to early
jazz development.

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