Chris Tyle
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Chris Tyle is dixieland jazz musician who performs on cornet, trumpet, clarinet and drums.
Chris Tyle (at microphone with trumpet) leading a combo in the French Quarter, 1993
Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, Afric
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition for "Jazz" from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Billie Davies, an avant-garde jazz drummer
Ethel Waters sang "Stormy Weather" at the Cotton Club.
Al Jolson in 1925