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Playing a deadly cornet by a mortician in St Louis
Ed Stemmler, a licensed mortician and jazz trumpeter, cut Undertakers Blues in 1917 origin with a group of players after finding a piano roll. The album includes The Ghost of the St Louis Blues and Dead Man Blues. Stemmler, once a DeBaliviere Strip club player, now balances funeral work with music and tombstone sales.
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Eric Newhouse
Associated Press
ST. Louis
Eben Pray
Stemmler
Tombstone
Stone In
America
DeBaliviere