Real name: Albert Joseph Snaer

American jazz trumpeter, born January 29, 1902 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died c. 1962 in California.
Performed and recorded with Dewey Jackson 1925-1926, moved to New York in 1930, working intermittently with Claude Hopkins 1932-1941. Ceased to work full-time in music, but played occasionally with Sidney Bechet (1949) and Frank "Big Boy" Goudie (early 1960s) and others. Moved to the West Coast in late 1950s.