Alphonse Picou Quotes

"I think the first ragtime jazz band I ever heard was Boo Boo Fortunea. He was the only man at that time who played the slide trombone [in New Orleans]. It was approximately, well, before 1900. I was still fifteen or sixteen years old then." - Alphonse Picou

source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)