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Phil Napoleon

Phil Napoleon has been played on NTS shows including RADIOOOOO.COM , with Fireworks first played on 30 November 2016.

Phil Napoleon (born Filippo Napoli, September 2, 1901 – October 1, 1990) was an early jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Richard Cook and Brian Morton, writing for The Penguin Guide to Jazz, refer to Napoleon as "a genuine pioneer" whose playing was "profoundly influential on men such as Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke." Napoleon began with classical training, and was performing publicly by age 5. In the 1910s, he was one of the first musicians in the northeastern United States to embrace the new "jass"…

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Fireworks
The Original Memphis Five, Phil Napoleon
IAJRC1977
Fireworks
The Original Memphis Five, Phil NapoleonIAJRC1977
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