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Obituary: Warren B. “Porgy” Jones

October 1, 2014 by: Geraldine Wyckoff

"Music was all around—everybody played something,” trumpeter Porgy Jones once exclaimed of growing up in the French Quarter. Jones enjoyed a diverse, almost 60-year musical career doing what came naturally and what he loved. Warren B. “Porgy” Jones died on August 21, 2014 at the age of 74.

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