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Allen, Red
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originally Henry James Allen
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| Jazz trumpeter and singer, born in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. As a boy, he marched alongside his father's famous New Orleans Brass Band. In Chicago in 1927, he joined King Oliver's band and travelled with it to New York, where he made his first recordings. He played the Mississippi steamboats (1928–9), then joined Fletcher Henderson's orchestra (1932–4). He recorded prolifically, but when he joined Armstrong's orchestra (1937–40) he was kept in the background. When he finally made it to Europe in 1959, he was lionized, and for the rest of his days he happily played Dixieland either in the raucous band at the Metropole in New York or on European tours. |
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