Music Pick: Wingy Manone

Look into the face of our featured jazz artist Joseph "Wingy" Manone and you can almost hear the joyous, infectious music that is about to invade your ears. Manone (1900-1982) was a New Orleans born trumpeter, singer, songwriter and all around entertainer. He may not have been the greatest jazz trumpeter, but he certainly was the greatest one armed jazz trumpeter, having ...lost his right arm in a streetcar accident in 1910; hence the nickname "Wingy". Look again at the photo and you'll note Wingy's prosthesis deftly tucked into his suit coat. Manone traveled the country and the world spreading his jazz magic from the early 20's almost up to his 1982 death, on records, radio, concerts, gin joints and movies. The attached song "Up the country blues" from 1930 provides a good sample of his boisterous style. The lyric is a tad sexist, but hey, that was 1930, when political correctness was still a half century off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jTCTjbgjw0