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1898 - George McCullum was born on this day. Traditional jazz trumpeter from New Orleans, Louisiana. He studied with his father, George, Sr. and succeded him in the Robichaux Orchestra when his father died in 1920. In the twenties he played with the Excelsior brass band and the Tuxedo brass band. He worked the dance halls with Eddie Jackson, and played solo trumpet in the WPA Brass Band during the Depression. George, Jr. died in New Orleans in 1938. |