Phil Edmund

[6][7] Early in his career, he was a big band trumpet player in New York with bandleaders such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Carter.

[5][8] It played at dances and clubs in the New England area, including in New Bedford, Providence, Martha's Vineyard, and at colleges.

[1] A newspaper article in 1940 describing local trends in dance hall music in Gloucester, MA, included Phil Edmund's orchestra and said "one of their specialties is swinging out of age-old sea chanties".

[9] Many Cape Verdean Americans in the region descended from people who worked in New England whaling in the 19th century.

[3][4] On April 9, 1993, he died in Hyannis, Massachusetts, of a heart ailment at Cape Cod Hospital when he was 78 years old.