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Jazz on the Road: Don Albert''s Musical Life.

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Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1203 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jazz on the Road: Don Albert''s Musical Life.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By Christopher Wilkinson. Berkeley: University of California Press; Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, 2001. [xvi, 290 p. ISBN 0-520-22983-5. $50 (hbk.); ISBN 0-520-22983-5 $19.95 (pbk.).]

Don Albert (1908-1980) was an African American trumpet player, bandleader, and businessman who spent most of his life in San Antonio, outside the main currents Of jazz development. Born Albert Anite Dominique, he grew up in a Creole family in New Orleans's Seventh Ward. The second cousin of clarinetist Barney Bigard (who later earned lathe with Duke Ellington) and the nephew of trumpeter Natty Dominique, Albert enjoyed close contact with prominent jazz figures in New Orleans. As a young man he moved to Texas, where he played for Troy Floyd's band ("the second-best black band in Texas after [Alphonso] Trent's" [p. 40]) in the late 1920s. tn the thirties he led his own swing baud, making a determined but ultimately fruitless attempt to succeed at the national level. After his band collapsed in 1940, he spent the rest of his life working for the government on Texas military bases during the...

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