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Jim Pickens
He has been a jazz trumpet player since 1951, playing in clubs and concert halls with some of the greatest jazz performers in the history of jazz, from Los Angeles to Chicago, Atlantic City to Flor...view moreHe has been a jazz trumpet player since 1951, playing in clubs and concert halls with some of the greatest jazz performers in the history of jazz, from Los Angeles to Chicago, Atlantic City to Florida, and New Orleans to Memphis. He still takes his All-Star Dixieland Jazz Band to concerts and festivals all over the country.
A veteran of the US Air Force, he left an engineering job at IBM and moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1963, to work for a large engineering research and development laboratory, on projects all over the world, retiring in 1993.view less