EUROPE, JAMES REESE (JIM
). Society dance-band and military-band leader ( in Mobile, Alabama; in Boston, Massachusetts). He came from a musical family: his mother played piano, a sister, Mary, and a brother, John, became professional musicians. The family moved to Washington, D.C., before he was ten years old. There he obtained his musical education in the public schools and also studied violin privately with
Enrico Hurlei
and, according to some sources, Joseph...