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Eddie "Snoozer" Quinn

American Jazz guitarist (born McComb, Mississippi, October 18, 1906 – died New Orleans, Louisiana, April 21, 1949). Quinn grew up in a musical family in Bogalusa, LA, where he family moved when he was around five. He learned to play violin, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and piano. From around age 12, he performed professionally. After high school, he worked first with Blanchard's Jazz Hounds, then for a stint at the Washington-Youree Hotel in Shreveport, LA, with pianist [a=Peck Kelley]'s band, called Peck's Band Boys. Peck gave him the nickname Snoozer because Quinn was so good he could sleep and play the guitar at the same time. In late 1928, Quinn came to the attention of [a=Paul Whiteman] and played with Whiteman's orchestra for about a year. In 1928 and 1931, Quinn twice accompanied [a=Jimmie Davis] at recording sessions for [a=Victor] in New York City. He also performed briefly with the Dorsey brothers and Ben Pollack. Quinn caught tuberculosis, however, and spent the last two decades of his life back home in Bogalusa, where he continued to perform. in 1948, one of Quinn's collaborator's in Peck Kelley's band, cornetist [a=Johnny Wiggs], cut Quinn's last recordings in a tuberculosis ward in New Orleans.