Al Gande

Jazz trombonist, born 1900, died June 3, 1944 in Cincinnati. Gande played with Bix Beiderbecke and The Wolverines in 1923 and 1924 before leaving the band late in that year, ultimately returning to his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1936, he started a Dixieland revival band there called The New Wolverines, which he led until his tragic death in a car accident in 1944.