JACK PURVIS
Classic (1920s) Jazz • United States
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Jack Purvis had a crazy and somewhat legendary life that has never been fully sorted out. His career in music was actually fairly brief. He began playing trumpet and trombone in a boy's training school, and he worked in local dance bands as early as 1921. Purvis played in Lexington, KY with the Original Kentucky Night Hawks for a few years in the mid-1920s; he also worked to qualify as an airline pilot and studied music in Chicago. Purvis started freelancing in 1926, worked with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians, visited Europe in 1928 with George Carhart and was with Hal Kemp's Orchestra from 1929-30 (originally as a trombonist before switching to trumpet). He was with The California Ramblers in 1930, had short-term associations with The Dorsey Brothers, Fred Waring (1932-33) and Charlie Barnet (1933), and worked in radio orchestras. Purvis led three recording sessions from 1929-30 that resulted in eight
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1928-1935
Classic (1920s) Jazz
2002
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