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Donald's Encyclopedia
of Popular Music
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Gene Lees’
JAZZLETTER

The Rise And Fall
of Popular Music
[A polemical history]

All Or Nothing At All:
A Life of Frank Sinatra

Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon

Jascha Horenstein:
A CD Discography of
the Great Conductor

Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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THOMAS, Joe (New Orleans clarinettist)

(b 3 December 1902, New Orleans LA; d there 18 February 1981) Clarinettist and singer. NIcknamed 'Cornbread', he played with Papa Celestin, among many others.