Phil Napoleon, born Filippo Napoli, was an early jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Boston, Massachusetts. Ron Wynn notes that Napoleon was a competent, though unimaginative trumpeter whose greatest value was the many recording sessions he led that helped increase jazz's popularity in the mid-'20s. Richard Cook and Brian Morton, writing for The Penguin Guide to Jazz, refer to Napoleon as a genuine pioneer whose playing was profoundly influential on men such as Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke....
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