Ed Allen (Musician) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ed Allen (December 15, 1897, Nashville, Tennessee - January 28, 1974, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Allen's family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when he was seven; he began playing piano at age ten and settled on cornet soon after. He worked as a truck driver in his teens and played in military bands. By the mid-1910s he was playing professionally in local nightclubs and bars. He moved to Seattle to take a gig with Ralph Stevenson, then returned to St. Louis to play on the Streckfus line of riverboats which ran between New Orleans and St. Louis on the Mississippi River.