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Dade Tarrant
Jazz pianist in New Orleans from the 1952 novel Music out of Dixie by author and jazz aficionado Harold Sinclair (1907-1966).
Mentions Bunk Johnson and a lot of other real New Orleans musicians:
Farther down the line of the parade, slowly beginning to take shape behind the King’s float, another band cracked into Ballin’ the Jack when Bunk’s outfit finally stopped. At the moment it was too far away to tell whose band it was, but the roaring trombone sounded like Kid Ory. All the bands would be out today, playing with the cream of black New Orleans’s musicians — Manuel Perez, Tio, Pavageau, Jimmy Noone, the Marrero brothers, Big Eye Nelson, maybe the Armstrong kid, Shots Madison, Mutt Carey, Joe Oliver, George Mitchell, Jimmy Robinson, and a host of lesser lights. Farther down would be the bands of Papa Celestin, Oscar Latner and Kid Rena.
