Cootie Williams

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Cootie Williams

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Why Is Cootie Williams Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter. Biography Born in Mobile, Alabama, Williams began his professional career at the age of 14 with the Young Family band, which included saxophonist Lester Young. According to Williams he acquired his nickname as a boy when his father took him to a band concert. When it was over his father asked him what he'd heard and he replied, "Cootie, cootie, cootie."

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