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The correct answer is Jimmy Noone!
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Jimmie Noone (April 23, 1895 – April 19, 1944) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. After beginning his career in New Orleans he led Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra, an influential Chicago band that recorded for Vocalion and Decca Records. Maurice Ravel acknowledged basing his Boléro on a Jimmie Noone improvisation. At the time of his death Noone had his own quartet in Los Angeles and was part of an all-star band that was an important force in reviving interest in traditional New Orleans jazz in the 1940s.
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Listen to the 1928 recording of Jimmie Noone performing the Byron Gay/Marco Hellman composition “Four or Five Times” [The Orchard]
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Listen to Noone playing his theme song, the Cliff Burwell/Mitchell Parish composition “Sweet Lorraine” [Universal Music Group]
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Click here to read Noone’s complete Wikipedia biography
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