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King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

Kid Ory and his band

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Johnny Dodds, 1923

Johnny Dodds

American musician

Bunk Johnson

Bunk Johnson

American musician

Henry Allen

Henry Allen

American musician

Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

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