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Vertna Saunders was an African-American cornettist and trumpet player based in the Missouri jazz scene of the early 20th century. Saunders was in the Kansas University Band and became established as a jazz musician in Kansas City, Missouri.^[1] He visited New Orleans while performing on a riverboat.^[2] Saunders joined Eddie Johnson's band in 1934^[3] and worked with Lester Young at that time.^[1] He learned to read music from a fellow jazz musician.^[2]

Saunders performed with the St. Louis Blue Devils in the late 1930s and early 1940s, with performances at the Villa Valencia Club in Springfield, Illinois.^[3] He first encountered Miles Davis while playing with Buggs Roberts at the West End Waiters Club.^[3] In the 1940s, both Saunders and Davis played with St. Louis Blue Devils under the leadership of Eddie Randle, who was also treasurer of the black musicians union in St. Louis.^[3] He was one of many St. Louis jazz musicians, white and black, who served in various military branches during WWII.^[3] He performed with Singleton Palmer’s band in 1952.^[1] He served in the Army until his discharge in 1956.^[1] Vertna Saunders was interviewed by Dan Havens on April 5, 1982.^[1]

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1. ^¹²³⁴{{Cite web|url=https://www.siue.edu/lovejoy-library/musiclistening/NRJA/saunders.shtml|title=Oral History and Research Materials: Vertna Saunders|last=|first=|date=|website=www.siue.edu|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-02-24}}
2. ^¹{{Cite journal|last=Chevan|first=David|date=1989|title=Riverboat Music from St. Louis and the Streckfus Steamboat Line|journal=Black Music Research Journal|volume=9|issue=2|pages=153–180|doi=10.2307/779421|jstor=779421}}
3. ^¹²³⁴{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/City_of_Gabriels.html?id=lNb3NwTdivoC|title=City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973|last=Owsley|first=Dennis|date=2006|publisher=Reedy Press|isbn=9781933370040|language=en}}

4 : American jazz cornetists|American jazz trumpeters|Jazz musicians from Missouri|Musicians from Kansas City, Missouri

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