Results for "Percy Humphrey"

Percy Humphrey

Born: January 13, 1905

Part 7: Sing Miller: This Little Light of Mine

by William Carter
June 9, 2013

Born in 1914, pianist/vocalist Sing Miller was active on the New Orleans scene from the late 1920s until his death in 1990. If Sing didn't like something, he'd let you know. “Man...that ball don't bounce," is a Sing-saying drummer Jeff Hamilton remembers.Early one winter morning in Iowa in 1984, when I was traveling as ...

Part 4: Trumpeter Percy and Clarinetist Willie Humphrey On Tour and At Home

by William Carter
April 26, 2013

Listen to “St. Louis Blues" class="meta-date"> In a long caption in my book, Preservation Hall (W.W. Norton, 1991), I told the story, quoted below, of the Humphreys' long lives and distinguished lineage. I never met their trombonist brother, Earl, who died ...

Part 3: Spirit Matters

by William Carter
April 22, 2013

The Old Eureka Band, led from the 1930s by Percy Humphrey.Tops in the city as late as the 1950s, its joyous processions were marked by a dignity and decorum since overtaken by the wild and garish. Photos by Tom Sharpsteen, compiled with sound by Clint Baker and Katie Cavera, used here with ...

Climax Rag

By Percy Humphrey

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Climax Rag/ Yes Sir! That

Percy Humphrey w/ the Crescent City Joymakers: Climax Rag

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

What’s not to love here? Six venerable patriarchs of classic New Orleans jazz reconvening for a rollicking trip down memory lane. As far as Hot Jazz goes it doesn’t get much more combustible than this. The roster reads like the roll call for a dream Dixieland band. The indefatigable Robinson, for years George Lewis’ right hand ...

Climax Rag

By Percy Humphrey

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1999

Percy Humphrey with the Crescent City Joymakers: Climax Rag

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

They didn’t call trumpeter Humphrey’s New Orleans–based sextet the “Joymakers” for nothing. These gentlemen clearly had a lot of fun making music together. This session, recorded in 1965, is awash in foot–tapping trad Jazz from one end to the other. As such, the emphasis throughout is on interplay among the various members of the ensemble rather ...

Living New Orleans Jazz - 1974

By Percy Humphrey

Label: Columbia
Released: 1974

New Orleans Today Volume 3

By Percy Humphrey

Label: Columbia
Released: 1970