Edward Emerson Cuffee (June 7, 1902 – January 3, 1959) was an American
jazz
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trombonist.
Career
Cuffee moved to New York in the 1920s, where he recorded with
Clarence Williams (1927–29) and played with
Bingie Madison. He played in
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
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(1929–34) and in
Fletcher Henderson
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's band (1935–38), then with
Leon Abbey
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Biography
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 1900, to Luther James Robert Abbey and Eva Lee Alexander.
He started his care ...
(1940 and subsequently),
Count Basie
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(1941),
Chris Columbus (1944), and
Bunk Johnson
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Biography
Birth
Johnson gave the year of his birth as 1879, although Johnson stated on his 1937 application for Socia ...
(1947). Cuffee quit playing professionally after the late 1940s. Cuffee has sometimes been incorrectly referred to as Cuffee Davidson because of erroneous early sources.
References
*"Ed Cuffee". ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''.
Further reading
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John Chilton
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, ''Who's Who of Jazz''.
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1902 births
1959 deaths
American jazz trombonists
American male trombonists
20th-century American trombonists
Jazz musicians from Virginia
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
McKinney's Cotton Pickers members