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Long Buried in a Closet, Early Jazz Treasures Emerge

Luis Russell is probably best remembered as a key collaborator to two extraordinary trumpeter-singers of New Orleans, Louis Armstrong and Henry ‘Red’ Allen.

Luis Russell, center, at Tom Anderson's Cafe on Rampart Street, New Orleans, 1919. Also in the band, from left: Paul Barbarin, drums; Arnold Metoyer, trumpet; Willie Santiago, banjo; and Albert Nicholas, saxophones and clarinet.
Luis Russell, center, at Tom Anderson's Cafe on Rampart Street, New Orleans, 1919. Also in the band, from left: Paul Barbarin, drums; Arnold Metoyer, trumpet; Willie Santiago, banjo; and Albert Nicholas, saxophones and clarinet. Via Wikimedia Commons