Alvin Alcorn, the New Orleans jazz trumpeter, died July 10 at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. Alcorn would have celebrated his 91st birthday in September.

Born in New Orleans, Alcorn joined the musicians' union when he was 15 and performed with Armand Piron, Henry Allen, Sr., and the Excelsior Brass Band. In 1931, Alcorn married Lulsbia Joseph, a friend since elementary school. They had seven children.

In 1932, Alcorn joined the Don Albert Band in San Antonio and assumed the fir...