Image Credit: Foster, Abby "Chinee", Courtesy Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University. Physical rights are retained by the Hogan Jazz Archive.
Abbey “Chinee” Foster
March 20, 1902 – September 12, 1962
Abbey “Chinee Bébé” Foster (1902-1962) was a self-taught jazz drummer who played in Storyville with William Ridgley’s Tuxedo Orchestra, with Buddie Petit in the Eagle Band, and recorded with Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra in 1927. After years of retirement, he made a comeback with Punch Miller’s Band at Preservation Hall in 1961.
He was born in New Orleans and died in New Orleans.
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