Clyde McCoy
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Clyde Lee McCoy was an American jazz trumpeter and ensemble leader born on 29 December 1903 in Ashland, Kentucky. He achieved professional recognition for a career established in the swing and Dixieland jazz genres. After the McCoy family moved to Portsmouth, Ohio in 1912, he mastered the trumpet without formal instruction. At age 14, he performed on riverboats. McCoy achieved professional recognition for his solo rendition of the track âSugar Bluesâ (1931), first performed at the Drake Hotel in Chicago in 1930. This led to a recording contract with Columbia Records in 1931. The track sold in excess of 14 million copies internationally by his retirement in 1985. McCoy signed a recording contract with Decca Records in 1935 and achieved professional recognition as a co-founder of the magazine Down Beat (1935). His recording career includes the compilation recording The Uncollected: Clyde McCoy (1936). McCoy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died on 11 June 1990.
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