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Obituary: Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill

May 27, 2015 by: Geraldine Wyckoff

"It has always been embedded in us to play music,” Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill once said of his musical family that included his grandfather Jessie “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” Hill plus the Andrews, Lastie and Nelson clans. That statement also rings true in the way—particularly in the Treme neighborhood—that New Orleans musicians respond to learning of the death of on...

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