Mannie Klein is all but forgotten today. Yet the trumpeter was on 672 recording sessions, topping Louis Armstrong's 658. Klein began recording in 1922 and worked relentlessly over six decades. In 1928 alone, he recorded with Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, the Dorsey Brothers and Paul Whiteman among other leading bands of the day. Throughout the 1930s…
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