DE PARIS, SIDNEY

DE PARIS, SIDNEY. Jazz trumpeter (30 May 1905 in Crawfordsville, Indiana; 13 September 1967 in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: his father was a bandleader-music teacher, and his brother Wilbur became a professional musician. He studied music with his father. He began playing professionally about 1924 in Washington, D.C., with Sam Taylor. During the next two decades he played with various groups, including Charlie Johnson (1926-27, 1928-31), McKinney's Cotton PickersMcKinney's Cotton Pickers...