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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1902
- Active to
- 1959
Discography
- 1926/19291992
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Omer Victor Simeon (21 July 1902 - 17 September 1959) was an American jazz clarinetist. He also played soprano, alto, and baritone saxophone and bass clarinet. Omer Simeon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a cigar maker. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois. He learned clarinet from the New Orleans master Lorenzo Tio, Jr., and started playing professionally in 1920. He worked in Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin with various bands, including Jimmy Bell's Band and Charlie Elgar's C
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- clarinetist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Image
- Omer Simeon (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1902-07-21
- date of death
- 1959-09-17
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Omer Simeon
- start of work period
- 1920-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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