Chris Kelly (jazz)
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Chris Kelly was an American
jazz
trumpeter born in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
on Deer Range Plantation
, perhaps best-known for his early contributions on the New Orleans jazz scene. Throughout the 1920s he was a regular collaborator with clarinetist George Lewis
. No photograph
s or recordings have survived of Kelly's.
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
trumpeter born in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Plaquemines Parish is the parish with the most combined land and water area in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Pointe à la Hache...
on Deer Range Plantation
Plantation
A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...
, perhaps best-known for his early contributions on the New Orleans jazz scene. Throughout the 1920s he was a regular collaborator with clarinetist George Lewis
George Lewis (clarinetist)
George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.-Ancestry:...
. No photograph
Photograph
A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...
s or recordings have survived of Kelly's.