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Up Jumped the Devil! — Merritt Brunies and the Jazz Age at Chicago’s Friars Inn

Today’s Document Records Halloween Needle Drop Up Jumped the Devil! Merritt Brunies and His Friars Inn Orchestra — Chicago Jazz in the Roaring Twenties Chicago, 1924. Jazz was filling the city’s dance halls and nightclubs, and musicians from New Orleans were helping to transform American popular music. Among them was cornet player and bandleader Merritt … Continue reading “Up Jumped the Devil! — Merritt Brunies and the Jazz Age at Chicago’s Friars Inn”