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" Baby " Dodds ( pronounced " dots ") was the younger brother of clarinetist Johnny Dodds.
He is regarded as one of the very best jazz drummers of the pre-big band era, and one of the most important early jazz drummers.
His mother, who died when he was nine years old, taught him valuable lessons about persistence and putting one ’ s whole effort into endeavors, and he carried these with him through his career as a jazz drummer.
He was born into a very musical family.
His father and uncle played violin and his sister played harmonica.
In addition, his father was religious and the family would regularly sing hymns together.
Dodds, in his autobiography The Baby Dodds Story, tells the story of making his first drum:
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