By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Blue Note Records/Mosaic Grachan Moncur III was born in New York City (his paternal grandfather was from the Bahamas) and reared in Newark, New Jersey. He started playing the cello at age nine then transitioned to the trombone at the age of eleven. He went to the Laurinburg Institute in […]
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