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Jimmie Noone |
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Name: Jimmie Noone
| Nee: |
Jimmy Noone |
| Born: |
23 Apr 1895 |
| Died: |
19 Apr 1944 |
| Origin: |
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| AKA: |
Jimmy Noone |
| Instruments: |
Clarinet |
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| Jimmie Noone was an early jazz clarinetist. He started playing guitar in his home town; at the age of 15 he switched to clarinet and moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio. By c. 1912 was playing professionally, with Freddie Keppard in Storyville, and played with Buddy Petit, Kid Ory, Papa Celestin, the Eagle Band, and the Young Olympia Band, before joining the Original Creole Orchestra in Chicago in 1917. The following year joined King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, then in 1920 joined Keppard in Doc Cooke's band which he would remain with for 6 years, and make early recordings with. In 1926 he started leading the band for at Chicago's Apex Club. |
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