Joe Appleton was a jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist and clarinetist from the West Indies.

Appleton moved to Britain

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 in the 1920s, and he played in dance bands both there and on the Continent through the end of the decade. In 1934 he played in Leslie Thompson

Leslie Thompson (musician)

Leslie Anthony Joseph Thompson was a Jamaican jazz trumpeter.Thompson played in the West India Regiment band and played locally in Kingston movie palaces in the 1920s, then moved to London in 1929. In 1930 he began playing with Spike Hughes, where he played trumpet, trombone, and double bass until...

's Emperors of Jazz, and was leading his own band by 1937; he also worked with Jiver Hutchinson

Jiver Hutchinson

Leslie George "Jiver" Hutchinson was a Jamaican jazz trumpeter and bandleader.Hutchinson played in the band of Bertie King in Jamaica in the 1930s, then moved to England, where he played with Happy Blake's Cuba Club Band. In 1936 he played in Leslie Thompson's Emperors of Jazz and in 1938 with Ken...

 and Cyril Blake

Cyril Blake

Cyril "Midnight" Blake was a Trinidadian jazz trumpeter.Blake moved to England about 1918, where he played in a British group called the Southern Syncopated Orchestra...

 in the second half of the decade. He appears on the Rex Stewart

Rex Stewart

Rex Stewart was an American jazz cornetist best known for his work with the Duke Ellington orchestra....

 release Muscat Ramble, which was released on Amiga Records (an Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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an label) and which became a highly sought-after collector's item. Appleton led his own bands in London into the 1950s.