Bubber Miley
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American jazz trumpet and cornet player, composer (1903-1932)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1903-04-03
- Active to
- 1932-05-20
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James Wesley "Bubber" Miley (April 3, 1903 – May 20, 1932) was an early jazz trumpeter and cornet player, specializing in the use of the plunger mute. Miley was born in Aiken, South Carolina into a musical family. At the age of six he and his family moved to New York City where, as a child, he occasionally sung for money on the streets, and later, at the age of fourteen studied to play the trombone and cornet. In 1920, after having served in the navy for eighteen months <a href="https://www.las
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Aiken
- Place of death
- New York City
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Image
- James"Bubber"Miley.jpg
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- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1903-04-03
- date of death
- 1932-05-20
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- James Wesley Miley
- pseudonym
- Bubber Miley
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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