The Black Birds Of Paradise were an African-American jazz band from Montgomery, Alabama. They were active from 1925 to 1931. Several members of this band had attended the nearby Tuskegee Institute and had been members of the school band. There are no known existing copies of the record released on the Black Patti label. Philmore "Shorty" Hall, the trumpeter in the Black Birds of Paradise later taught trumpet to Dizzy Gillespie when Gillespie was a high school student at the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. Still later, Hall was for many years the director of the well-respected band at Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina.

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