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2 unusual facts about International Sweethearts of Rhythm


Cathy Hughes

Cathy Hughes was born to Helen Jones Woods, a trombonist with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, and William Alfred Woods, who was the first African-American to earn an accounting degree from Creighton University (a university which Hughes herself would later attend).

Maurice King

Maurice King (musician), mid-20th-century American jazz musician, member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and later Maurice King's Wolverines


Culture of North Omaha, Nebraska

Other influential figures on North Omaha's early scene included Lloyd Hunter, Anna Mae Winburn and her International Sweethearts of Rhythm trombonist, Helen Jones Woods.


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