Tagged: Vocalist

03/29/2015

B.J. Crosby, New Orleans-born #NOLA Broadway and #jazz vocalist, has passed away @ 62 http://nola.tw/TP

Louisiana Today

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1879 - Albert Carroll was born on this day. An authentic Storyville piano professor and a native of Donaldsonville, Louisiana. He was known to play at Lulu White's bordello, and well known by Jelly Roll Morton who called his a "great pianist". In 1912, he travelled and played in Chicago, and by 1916 went home to his parents and passed away in March 1916 at the age of 36.