JOE MCQUEEN
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Joe McQueen (born in Dallas, Texas in 1919) is a professional jazz saxophone musician.
He was raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He played tuba and then saxophone in the Ardmore High School band. He was also on the football squad.
McQueen began playing professional jazz at the age of sixteen. He was introduced to the saxophone a few years earlier by his cousin, Herschel Evans, who played in Count Basie's band in the mid-1930s.
In 1945, McQueen and his wife, Thelma, traveled to Ogden, Utah. He was at the time in a jazz band that dissolved when its leader gambled away the troupe's earnings en route from Las Vegas. McQueen reformed the band and stayed in Ogden.
Ogden, Utah, in the near post-WWII era was a hot spot for jazz music, as it was a major stop on the railroad route west to San Francisco, California from Kansas City and beyond. The city was mentioned
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