He was part of the ragtime community that met at Tom Turpin's Rosebud bar with Joe Jordan and others.

He looked delicate with his fine features and his long, tapering fingers, but he was wild and strong.

It's authentic, I guess, that he smoked opium at the lastChauvin left only three published compositions and died without having recorded.

Chauv was so far ahead with his modern stuff, he would be up to date now.He is remembered today primarily for "Heliotrope Bouquet", the rag in which he shares compositional credit with Scott Joplin.

[2] His published works are: Chauvin died in Chicago at the age of 27; he has been cited as an early member of the "27 Club".