New Orleans jazz musician, Lionel Ferbos, died Friday at his home in Crescent City a day after his 103^rd birthday.

Ferbos is said to be the oldest working musician in the birthplace of Jazz. As early, as 15 years old he had been playing the trumpet.

He still continues to perform months before he died, playing the tuned he had known and love. According to Times Picayune, the legendary musician doesn't know any modern jazz.

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Even though, Ferbos did not became famous as a soloist. He became known for his ability to blend in an ensemble and play intricate harmonic parts.

In the 1930s, he performed in vaudeville shows like dance bands and night clubs in Rampart Street.

Sadly, in the 1950s to the 60s he found little work as a musician, but during the 1970, with renewed interest in Jazz , he returned to the bandstand.

He performs in Palm Court Jazz Café every week as a trumpeter, singer and bandleader during this past few years.

Nina Buck, the Palm Court Owner, said in USA Today that a lot of young musicians come to watch him.

Ferbos performed in the soundtrack of Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby" on 1978. A year after that, he became part of the band "One Mo' Time" but turned down the offer to play on Broadway in New York because he preferred to perform at home.

When he wasn't playing the trumpet, Ferbos worked on his family's sheet-metal business, making gutters, roofs and air-conditioning ducts. He was very skilled at his work that some of his creations were featured in museums.

According to the Associated Press, "Nobody does what Lionel does. It's something that can't be copied, and when he's gone, it's gone."

Even though the world lost a great musician, he will forever be remembered as a legend.

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