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Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman, one of the most popular bands in the country. Steven C. Bowie respectfully tells Williams's story, from his Alabama ancestry onward, including many new details rediscovered from the historical archives of the African American press and those gleaned from the author's interviews with his friends and colleagues.
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