Ovie Alston
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title:
Ovie Alston
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Overton "Ovie" Alston was an American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader. Alston played with Bill Brown and His Brownies in New York in 1928, recording with them for Brunswick Records. He was hired by Claude Hopkins in 1931 and remained with him until 1936; it is for this association that he is best known. After leaving Hopkins he started his own band, playing at the Apollo Theater, the Plantation Club, the Ubangi Club and the Roseland Ballroom in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He toured
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American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and bandleader
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovie_Alston
date created:
2008-04-23T22:33:04Z
date modified:
2022-01-14T21:40:15Z
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