James "Bubber" Miley
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American jazz trumpet and cornet player, composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Wesley "Bubber" Miley was an American early jazz trumpet and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute. Early life Miley was born in Aiken, South Carolina, United States, into a musical family. At the age of six, he and his family moved to New York City where, as a child, he occasionally sang for money on the streets, and later, at the age of 14, studied to play the trombone and cornet.
