Arthur Briggs

A fine early trumpeter whose cousin was tuba player Pete Briggs (who recorded with Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven in 1927), Arthur Briggs spent most of his life living in Europe, leading to his eventual obscurity in the U.S. Briggs started playing trumpet as a youth and performed in the 369th U.S. Infantry Band but was too young at the time to be shipped overseas during World War I. He first visited ...more