Eugene Mikell, Sr.

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Music instructor and leader of the Jenkins Orphanage Band who taught some of the first great musicians of jazz.

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1900s - 1930s

March 27, 1880 in Charleston, SC

January 19, 1932 in Brooklyn, NY

Jazz

Ragtime, Early Jazz

Francis Eugene Mikell, F. Eugene Mikell

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