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Augustus Aiken is born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He will pursue a career under the name Gus Aiken as a jazz trumpet player, working with Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell and Charlie Johnson, as well as playing sessions on records by Mary Jackson, Eliza Christmas Lee, Daisy Martin, Lavinia Turner, Louise Vant, Essie Whitman, Lena Wilson, Ethel Waters, Clara Smith and Cindy Smith.