Sara Lievre

Ray Bauduc was born June 18, 1906, in New Orleans. He came from a musical family: his father Jules Bauduc was a cornetist, his older

Lawrence “Bud” Freeman was born April 13, 1906, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1922, Freeman and some friends from high school formed the Austin High School

Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was born February 8, 1899, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Some sources give his birth year as 1894 or 1889.) He studied violin,

Henry James “Red” Allen, Jr., was born in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 7, 1908. After playing trumpet on riverboats on