Pete Briggs was an American jazz

Jazz

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 bass

Double bass

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 and tuba

Tuba

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 player.

Briggs was born in Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

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 and was related to bandleader Arthur Briggs

Arthur Briggs

Arthur Briggs was an African American Jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader who performed in Europe....

. He first played professionally in the early 1920s with the Jim Jam Jazzers, and soon after played with the Lucky Boy Minstrels. In 1926 he moved to Chicago

Chicago

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, playing with Carroll Dickerson

Carroll Dickerson

Carroll Dickerson was a Chicago and New York-based dixieland jazz violinist and bandleader, probably better known for his extensive work with Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines or his more brief work touring with King Oliver....

, Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone

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, and Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

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, with whom he recorded copiously. Briggs appears on many of the Hot Seven recordings made with Armstrong and his band.

In 1929, Briggs went to New York City

New York City

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, playing there with Armstrong and Dickerson. He joined the Edgar Hayes

Edgar Hayes

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 Orchestra and the Vernon Andrade

Vernon Andrade

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 Orchestra in the 1930s. In the 1940s he played with Herman Autrey

Herman Autrey

Herman Autrey was an American jazz trumpeter.Autrey was born into a musical family, and began on alto horn before taking up trumpet as a teenager and gigging locally in Pittsburgh and Florida. After some time in Florida he worked in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City, where he...

 in Philadelphia. However, by the latter half of the decade, Briggs had given up music and become a farmer

Farmer

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. His date of death is unknown.