1950 NEGR0 AFRO MAGAZINE newspaper BIO BLACK JAZZ SAXOPHONIST ARNETT COBB Music

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1950 NEGR0 AFRO MAGAZINE newspaper with an inside page detailed report of an EARLY JAZZ SAXOPHONIST ARNETT COBB
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
_Afro Magazine_
(Baltimore, Maryland) dated June 10, 1950, with fantastic Black Music history!  With historic photo of Cobb
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Born in Houston, Texas, he was taught to play piano by his grandmother, and he went on to study violin before taking up tenor saxophone in the high school band. At the age of 15 he joined Louisiana bandleader Frank Davis's band, doing shows in Houston and throughout Louisiana during the summer. Cobb continued his musical career with the local bands of trumpeter Chester Boone, from 1934 to 1936, and Milt Larkin, from 1936 to 1942 (which included a period on the West Coast with Floyd Ray). Among his bandmates in the Larkin band were Illinois Jacquet, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Tom Archia, Cedric Haywood, and Wild Bill Davis. Having turned down an offer from Count Basie in 1939, Cobb replaced Jacquet in Lionel Hampton's band in 1942, staying with Hampton until 1947. Cobb's featured solo on Hampton's theme song "Flying Home No. 2" generated much excitement, his blasting style earning him the label "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax".
Cobb then started his own seven-piece band, but suffered a serious illness in 1950, which necessitated spinal surgery. Although he re-formed the band on his recovery, in 1956 its success was again interrupted, this time by a car crash. This had long-term effects on his health, involving periods in the hospital, and making him permanently reliant on crutches.[4] Nevertheless, Cobb worked as a soloist through the 1970s and 1980s in the U.S. and abroad. As late as 1988 he played with Jimmy Heath and Joe Henderson in Europe.
He died in his hometown, at the age of 70 in 1989.
Good condition.
This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper.
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