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Wayman Carver - flute (1905 - 1967) Wayman Alexander Carver was born December 25, 1905 in Portsmouth, Virginia. At an early age, Carver showed not only an interest in but talent for music. Both his father and uncle were accomplished musicians who played in the Metropolitan Marching Band of Portsmouth, Virginia. The band was a combined jazz and marching band composed largely of “ear musicians”. Carver’s uncle, Derrick Copeland, had some musical training and was the leader of the band as well as the town’s music teacher. Copeland gave Carver his first instrument and directed his music training

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Retrieval Records: Treasures Lost and Found

by Nathan Holaway
October 13, 2010

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."-- Louis Armstrong “You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was ...