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Jazz Nicknames

by AAJ Staff
March 4, 2004

Slang is definitely cool, but other non-musical aspects, like nicknames, have created a certain allure or attraction to jazz, too. Nicknames, especially the stories behind them, are fun, sometimes funny, and other times fascinating. The immortal Louis Armstrong had at least three of them. Even before jazz was officially a musical form, forerunners of ...