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Alvin Alcorn

Born: September 7, 1912

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Article: Jazz Emerges

Part 6: The Basses of Our Music

by William Carter
May 26, 2013

Listen to bassist Pops Foster with the Luis Russell Orchestra from 1929, playing “Jersey Lightning." Also on this record are New Orleans men Henry “Red" Allen, Albert Nicholas and Paul Barbarin. Virtually all of the New Orleans bass players depicted in this post played in an energetic, percussive style very similar to Foster's:

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