jazz/lovers

In 1922 five kids from Austin High School out at Chicago’s west end, started a little band. The buff brick high school they attended was so much like others it was hard to describe, and the boys themselves were the sort who might have gone on to college but for their interest in music. All played violin except Bud Freeman, the greenhorn of the bunch. Their interest in music was so keen that they played and practiced in school, in their homes, and even in the vacant apartment of a house owned by the father of one of them.

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