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    FAREWELLS

    Sep 06, 2019 2 minutes

    a cornetist and traditional jazz stalwart who was best known as the house band leader for National Public Radio’s program, died August 11 in his San Antonio, Texas home. He was 77. In 1962, Cullum and his father, clarinetist Jim Cullum Sr., co-founded the Happy Jazz Band; the following year, they convinced a group of San Antonio investors to open, which was broadcast weekly in syndication on NPR from 1989 to 2012.

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