but Negro dances and porter's work. All that has been changed. Jim Europe was the living open sesame to the colored porters of this city. He took them from their porters' places and raised them to positions of importance as real musicians. I think the suffering public ought to know that in Jim Europe, the race has lost a leader, a benefactor, and a true friend." At the time of his death, he was the best-known black-American bandleader in the United States. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. Europe was mentioned by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his short story "No Flowers". Herbert Wright was convicted of manslaughter, and served eight years in prison. See also The Frogs (club) African American musical theater References Notes Further reading External links , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Europe's Society Orchestra Article and audio of the 1913–1914 recordings at Red Hot Jazz Archive Jim Europe's 369th Infantry "Hellfighters" Band. Article and audio of the 1919 recordings on redhotjazz.com Songs Brought Back from the Battlefield University of Michigan Exhibition From Ken Burns film Jazz. An on-line discography James Reese Europe Appreciation Project. BBC Radio 4 The Jazz Kings Go to War 1881 births 1919 deaths Military personnel from Mobile, Alabama 1919 crimes in the United States African-American jazz composers African-American jazz musicians African Americans in World War I 20th-century African-American musicians African-American United States Army personnel American jazz bandleaders American jazz mandolinists American manslaughter victims American ragtime mandolinists Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Deaths by stabbing in Massachusetts Jazz musicians from Alabama Musicians from Mobile, Alabama Ragtime composers United States Army officers United States Army personnel of World War I United States military musicians