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Kid Merv: Drinking from the Source

August 1, 2012 by: John Swenson

If you’re a musician in New Orleans, you’re never far from the source. In the case of trumpeter/vocalist Mervin “Kid Merv” Campbell, he’s got it coming and going. His great uncle, Kid Rena, was a local star during the infancy of jazz in the early 20th Century, a rival of Louis Armstrong’s who replaced Satchmo in Kid Ory’s band in 1919. But Merv also is close to the source ...

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