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Cornettist, composer and recording artist Joe ‘King’ Oliver dies in Savannah, Georgia.
Jazz cornet player and bandleader Joe 'King' Oliver, whose best-known compositions included Dippermouth Blues and Canal Street Blues, dies in poverty at a rooming house, 508 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia, USA, of arteriosclerosis. He was too poor to afford treatment.
Jazz cornet player and bandleader Joe 'King' Oliver dies in poverty at a rooming house, 508 Montgomery Street, Savannah, Georgia, USA, of arteriosclerosis. He was too poor to afford treatment.