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Image Credit: Photo by Bill Russell
Alice Zeno
1864 – 1960
Image Credit: Photo by Bill Russell
1864 – 1960
Alice Williams Zeno (1864-1960) was the mother of clarinetist George Lewis. She worked as a domestic in the household of the writer Grace King, raising her son on her own and supporting him in his desire to become a jazz musician.
The clarinet is a type of woodwind instrument that has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an approximately…