Bass, tuba
The brother of the well-known New York pianist Ellis Larkins, Al Larkins played in Elmer Gill’s trios at Sessions and the Ebony; with Billy Tolles at the short-lived New Orleans Club; and held down the bass chair in the Jive Bombers in the early ’50s. Larkins also played tuba in one of Seattle’s most popular New Orleans-revivalist groups, the Rainy City Jazz Band and taught social studies at Franklin High School. To honor his community service in the Madrona neighborhood, a park on 34th Avenue East and East Pike Street was named after him in 1979.