SIMEON, OMER VICTOR

SIMEON, OMER VICTOR. Jazz clarinetist (21 July 1902 in New Orleans, Louisiana; 17 September 1959 in New York, New York). His family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was fourteen; there he studied with Lorenzo Tio, Jr., who was living there at that time. In 1920 he began playing professionally, at first in his brother's group, Al Simeon's Hot Six. Thereafter he played with various groups, including Charlie Elgar (intermittently during the years 1923-27), Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton) Morton...