This is a somewhat rare track of a classic New Orleans Trad Jazz standard by trumpet player and vocalist Thomas Jefferson whom as you will hear sounds very similar to Louis Armstrong in both trumpet and vocals - coincidentally both Jefferson and Armstrong studied music from the same music teacher in New Orleans albeit a few years apart...Thomas Jefferson was an unsung hero of New Orleans Traditional Jazz playing in many different bands and recording about 5 solo albums of his own on local labels...he was admired for his talent as a musician and singer but also raised hell by refusing to join the local musicians union which was an extremely controversial thing to do in that time period...he did play in some brass bands including Young Tuxedo Brass Band along with his brother Andrew Jefferson who was a drummer (TJ started out as a drummer himself before switching to trumpet)...ultimately the jazz life on Bourbon St caught up to him towards the end of his life and he performed less and less at his weekly gigs at the Maison Bourbon on Bourbon St due to health issues...by this time he was pretty broke and living out of his car...he passed soon after and was buried by fellow musicians at Holt Cemetery - a paupers graveyard for the poor - where the likes of jazz legends Buddy Bolden and Blanche Thomas are buried...he contributed a great vocabulary to the New Orleans sound...

Paul Craven

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