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Leora Meaux, born in Louisville, KY, was a classically-trained cornet, trumpet, and saxophone player. She performed with a number of all-women bands in New York, and she was a substitute in her husband Fletcher Henderson's band, recording with them in 1932. {The image is a stand-in, and not Leora Meaux Henderson.}
“Meaux, Leora,” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database.
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