Edward Emerson Cuffee (June 7, 1902 – January 3, 1959) was an American
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...
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),
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People
* Chris Columbus (musician) (1902–2002), American jazz drummer
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(1944), and
Bunk Johnson
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(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
*
John Chilton
John James Chilton (16 July 1932 – 25 February 2016) was a British jazz trumpeter and writer. During the 1960s, he also worked with pop bands, including The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Escorts. He won a Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1 ...
, ''Who's Who of Jazz''.
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1902 births
1959 deaths
American jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
20th-century American musicians
20th-century trombonists
Jazz musicians from Virginia
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
McKinney's Cotton Pickers members