Amos White

The name Amos White, in small print on the liner notes to a New Orleans jazz compilation, seems a veritable sandwich of anonymity. White's participation in this genre, beginning even prior to the Roaring Twenties, is in actuality only a small part of his fascinating life as a musician. White's first musical peer group was the famed Jenkins Orphanage Band, an indeed illustrious collaboration between a South Carolina charitable institution's talented and dedicated music teacher and the many young musical talents who seem to have been orphaned during the late 19th century in the ...