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== Early years ==

== Early years ==

Jack Purvis was born in [[Kokomo, Indiana|Kokomo]], [[Indiana]] on December 11, 1906 to Sanford B. Purvis, a real estate agent and his wife Nettie (Jackson) Purvis.<ref>''Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915 to 1945, Richard M. Sudhalter, Oxford University Press, 1999, page 471</ref> He learned trumpet and trombone as a boy and by the time he attended high school he was playing in the school band. As early as 1921 he was playing locally in dance bands.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, Scott Yanow, 2001</ref>  

Jack Purvis was born in Kokomo, [[Indiana]] on December 11, 1906 to Sanford B. Purvis, a real estate agent and his wife Nettie (Jackson) Purvis.<ref>''Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915 to 1945, Richard M. Sudhalter, Oxford University Press, 1999, page 471</ref> He learned trumpet and trombone as a boy and by the time he attended high school he was playing in the school band. As early as 1921 he was playing locally in dance bands.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, Scott Yanow, 2001</ref>  

After high school he worked in his home state for a time then went to Lexington, Kentucky where he played with the Original Kentucky Night Hawks. Around this time he learned to fly planes. In 1926 he was with [[Bud Rice]] and toured New England. He then worked the remainder of 1926 and the beginning of 1927 with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians. For a short time he played trombone with [[Hal Kemp]] and by July 1928 he traveled to [[France]] with George Carhart's band. It is reported that he had an early brush with the law when he cheated a tourist out of his travelers checks and was forced to leave the band and flee France.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, Scott Yanow, 2001</ref>

After high school he worked in his home state for a time then went to Lexington, Kentucky where he played with the Original Kentucky Night Hawks. Around this time he learned to fly planes. In 1926 he was with [[Bud Rice]] and toured New England. He then worked the remainder of 1926 and the beginning of 1927 with Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvanians. For a short time he played trombone with [[Hal Kemp]] and by July 1928 he traveled to [[France]] with George Carhart's band. It is reported that he had an early brush with the law when he cheated a tourist out of his travelers checks and was forced to leave the band and flee France.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, Scott Yanow, 2001</ref>