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Doc Cheatham holding trumpet and trumpet mute Item Info

Title:
Doc Cheatham holding trumpet and trumpet mute
Date Created:
undated
Description:
Doc Cheatham holds his trumpet in his right hand and a copper pixie trumpet straight mute in his left hand. The mute was given to him in 1924 by Joseph "King" Oliver (1885-1938), who was being followed around by young Cheatham and had a valet gift the mute to make Cheatham go away (I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home pg 15). Cheatham wears a brown dress shirt, black thick-framed glasses, a brown-strap watch, and sports a grey mustache. He stands in front of bushes of little pink flowers outside a red-brick building.
Subjects:
trumpet trumpet mute jazz trumpet color photograph
Musicians:
Joe "King" Oliver
Source:
Doc Cheatham Papers, 1892-1995, IJC MG 8, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Source Identifier:
ijcmg008_b001_f001-002
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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