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Leroy ParkinsEli's Chosen Six Eli's Chosen Six US musical group Eli's Chosen Six was the ensemble that appeared in the influential 1958 concert film Jazz On A Summer's Day playing Dixieland as they drove around Newport in a convertible jalopy.[1] It was a famous Yale University Dixieland band of the 1950s that played the boisterous trad-jazz style of the day.[2] The ensemble of white college-student jazz revivalists rose into popular prominence in the mid-1950s, when "college jazz" was a catchphrase. The sextet was founded and managed by Dick Voigt, and counted as members the later-legendary trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassists Buell Neidlinger (succeeded by Bob Morgan), cornetist and cartoonist Lee Lorenz,[3] clarinetist Pete Williams (who was succeeded by Leroy Sam Parkins) and… (Source: Wikipedia)
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