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Photograph of "Georgia Tom" Dorsey. He wears a coat with an upturned collar and a matching hat. He holds a lit match to a cigarette in his mouth. He faces forward."Georgia Tom" Dorsey began his career as a blues pianist at the age of twelve in Atlanta. In 1916 Dorsey moved to Chicago, where he assumed the leadership of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's Wild Cats Jazz Band in 1924 and began recording with "Tampa Red" Whittaker in 1928.
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