Cyril "Midnight" Blake (22 October 1900 – 3 December 1951) was a
Trinidad
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ian
jazz
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trumpeter.
Biography
Blake moved to
England
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about 1918, where he played in a British group called the
Southern Syncopated Orchestra. He worked in
Paris
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and
London
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as a musician throughout the 1920s, and in the 1930s played in the bands of
Leon Abbey
Leon Alexander Anthony Abbey (May 7, 1900 – September 1975) was an American jazz violinist and bandleader.
Biography
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 1900, to Luther James Robert Abbey and Eva Lee Alexander.
He started his care ...
,
Happy Blake
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...
,
Rudolph Dunbar
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