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Mobile County Prichard

Prichard’s Own: How Lil Greenwood Went From Sunday School to Duke Ellington’s Bandstand

May 4, 2010 James Bullard

Long before she earned the nickname "One Take Lil" from Duke Ellington, Prichard native Lil Greenwood was a schoolteacher with a voice that would carry her from a San Francisco…

Mobile Mobile County

Jazz Appreciation Month: Mobile’s Own, Part 6 — Cootie Williams and the Sound That Redefined the Trumpet

April 21, 2010 James Bullard

For Jazz Appreciation Month, a look back at Mobile-born trumpeter Cootie Williams, whose growling plunger-mute style with Duke Ellington's orchestra and decades on the bandstand made him one of the…