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Boysie’s Horn is the story of jazz from Wilmington, Delaware over the course of the 20th century, its development, and the part it has played in the greater jazz history of the United States. Boysie’s Horn also tells how personal tragedy and social upheaval contributed to the undoing of a once vital jazz community.
Author Steven Leech, a radio host for WVUD FM, traces the social foundation and dynamic personalities who made Wilmington, like New Orleans and Kansas City, a place where Jazz came from. In Boysie’s Horn, you will follow the careers of vibraphonist Lem Winchester, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and vocalist Betty Roché, among many other artists. You will meet bandleader Sam Wooding, who abandoned his pre-World War II career in Europe for one

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as a music teacher at Wilmington’s Howard High when Clifford Brown was a student. And you’ll learn of Boysie Lowery, for half a century a music teacher to many of Delaware’s (and America’s)
most renowned jazz musicians.
Jazz fans and researchers will delight in all the artists Leech name checks in this well-in-dexed record of bands, clubs, musicians, recordings, and social movers, too often forgotten by Delaware’s cultural arbiters.
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Steven Leech has published more than 400 articles on music, current events, and cultural history. He has also published numerous poems, short stories, and four novels. His work has appeared in The Broadkill Review, The Delaware Valley Star, Out & About, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wilmington News Journal, and Dreamstreets, where he has been executive editor for three decades. He lives in Delaware’s suburban New Castle County.
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