Myron Pierman "Mynie" Sutton (October 9, 1903, Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

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 - June 17, 1982, Niagara Falls) was a Canadian

Canada

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 alto saxophonist and bandleader

Bandleader

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Sutton worked in dance ensembles in Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

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 and Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio

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 between 1924 and 1931. He returned to Canada in 1931 and founded the Canadian Ambassadors in Aylmer

Aylmer

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, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

; this was one of very few black jazz

Jazz

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 bands based out of Canada in the 1930s. The group operated out of Montreal

Montreal

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 from 1933, playing at Connie's Inn

Connie's Inn

Connie's Inn was a Harlem, New York City nightclub established in 1923 by Connie Immerman, a white bootlegger. It was located in the basement at 2221 Seventh Avenue at 131st Street....

, the Hollywood Club, and Cafe Montmartre, in addition to doing tours of Quebec and Ontario

Ontario

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. Pianists in the ensemble included Lou Hooper

Lou Hooper

Louis Stanley Hooper was a Canadian jazz pianist....

 and Buster Harding

Buster Harding

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By 1941 the Ambassadors had disbanded, and Sutton returned to his birthplace of Niagara Falls, where he played locally for decades. He made no commercial recordings. A collection of materials devoted to Sutton is held at the Concordia University library in Montreal.