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Happy Birthday, Wingy Manone!

Happy Birthday, Wingy Manone!

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson

Trumpeter, singer, and composer Joseph “Wingy" Manone was born on this date in 1900. As a boy in New Orleans, he lost an arm as a result of a streetcar accident, but this didn't stop him from taking up a musical instrument. His nickname has to rank as a bitof gallows humor, although Manone's 1948 autobiography was entitled Trumpeton the Wing. He used a prostheticarm so naturally when playing trumpet that his disability was not immediately noticeable. He first played ...

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