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Biography
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Pee Wee Erwin
Real name: George Erwin
Effective period / Period of releases: 1954 - 1980
American jazz trumpeter.Born: May 30, 1913, Falls City, Nebraska, USA
Died: June 20, 1981, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Erwin started on trumpet at age four. He led his own big band in 1941-42 and 1946. In the 1950s he played Dixieland jazz in New Orleans, and in the 1960s formed his own trumpet school with Chris Griffin