A highly respected
jazz clarinetist based out of New Orleans, Dr. Michael White's playing pays tribute to the city's
Dixieland heritage and predecessors like
Sidney Bechet. White is a professor at Xavier University where he teaches African-American Music and holds an endowed chair in the humanities department. He is in his early 50's and began his musical career in his late teens, blowing with veteran trumpeter
Doc Paulin's Brass Band. After stints in the 70's sitting in with many of the then-remaining old timers like trumpeter "Kid Sheik" Colar,…
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