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Luxembourg jazz and classical trumpet player and founder of the Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra.He toured internationally with the Big Bop Nouveau jazz band and, on the classical side, played with the Luxembourg Philharmonic.He was the only European-born member of Duke Ellington's American jazz orchestra.
BEFORE FAMEHe studied at a conservatory in Metz, France before attending Berklee College of Music (Boston) and the Manhattan School of Music.
PERSONAL LIFEHis family lived in the Luxembourg city-commune of Esch-sur-Alzette at the time of his birth.
FUN FACTSTrumpet Player Ernie Hammes were born on Sunday, in a leap year, birthstone is Peridot, the seaon was Summer in the Chinese year of Monkey, it is 220 days until Ernie Hammes next birthday.
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