Demas Dean (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Demas Dean (October 6, 1903, (Sag Harbor, New York) - 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter. Dean began on the instrument at age ten; he later picked up violin but concentrated on trumpet professionally. While in high school he played in Mazzeo's Brass Band, and worked with Beatrice Van Houten while still in his teens. He attended Howard University in 1922-23, and played with Elmer Snowden, Doc Perry, Russell Wooding, and Lucille Hegamin in the first half of the 1920s. He played with Billy Butler, Ford Dabney, and Leon Abbey later that decade; with Abbey, he toured South America.