William Cornish (August 1, 1875January 12, 1942) was an early

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

musicianknown for his being very active on the

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scene playing, leading bands, and teaching music for decades.

Career

He was a member of

Buddy Bolden Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an African American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later ca ...

's pioneering New Orleans style band, playing

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, from about the late 1890s until 1903 or 1905, with a short break when he fought in the

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. He was also an early member of the Eureka Brass Band. When he had a stroke which paralysed his left side before the summer of 1931, he contrived a way of holding his trombone in place with a strap so that he could continue playing.

References

1875 births 1942 deaths American jazz trombonists Male trombonists Jazz musicians from New Orleans American male jazz musicians {{US-jazz-trombonist-stub