- Operated his own nightclub in Los Angeles in the 1950s and early '60s.
- Jazz trombonist and bandleader.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986.
- Became the first black New Orleans musician to make records in 1922.
- Retired to Hawaii in 1966.
- Made his most famous recordings in Chicago between 1925-30, in conjunction with Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton.
- His best-known composition is the jazz standard "Muskrat Ramble".
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