Lee Blair (musician)

Lee L. Blair ( born October 10, 1903 in Savannah (Georgia ), † October 15, 1966 in New York City ) was an American jazz guitarist and banjo player.

Blair was self-taught on the banjo, apart from a few lessons at Mike Pingitore, the banjo player with Paul Whiteman. He then played from 1925 to 1928 in dance schools with Charlie Skeete and Bill Benford, then to 1930, Jelly Roll Morton, originated with the also recordings. 1930/31 he worked with Billy Kato, then in the orchestra of Luis Russell ( 1934-35 ) Connie's Inn and with the same orchestra under the direction of Louis Armstrong ( 1935-40 ).

In the 1940s, he was merely working as a freelance part-time musician; from the mid-1950s he played in Wilbur De Paris ' New Orleans Jazz Band; In 1957 he went on a tour of Africa. In the 1960 his musical activities declined and was poultry on a farm in upstate New York. In 1960 he joined occasionally in New York; so 1964 still on the '' World's Fair with Danny Barker and Eddie Gibbs. Throughout his career, he did not take on under his own name, but it seemed to recordings of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Russell, Louis Armstrong and Wilbur De Paris; Also when shooting by Dick Cary, Pee Wee Erwin and Leonard Gaskin.

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