Results for "cornet"

Oscar 'Papa' Celestin

Born: January 1, 1884

Oscar “Papa” Celestin - trumpet, bandleader (1884 - 1954) Papa Celestin was one of the most popular of New Orleans cornet players, and considered a major player in the development of jazz. Most of the great New Orleans players up to 1950 played for Papa one time or another. Celestin was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana, and was inspired at an early age to become a musician. He played guitar and trombone before deciding on cornet as his main instrument. He played with various small town bands before moving to New Orleans in 1906. Arriving in New Orleans, Celestin became a member of Henry Allen Sr.’s Excelsior band in 1908

Ruby Braff

Born: March 16, 1927

Ruby Braff began his jazz career as an out-of-time traditionalist playing with veteran jazzmen of an earlier age, and rose to establish his own standing as one of the handful of leading artists playing in traditional and mainstream idioms.

He did so on the back of one of the most beautiful instrumental sounds in jazz, a prodigious gift for phrasing melody, and an acute harmonic sense which revealed his awareness of more modernist developments in jazz. Louis Armstrong remained his touchstone and only avowed master, but his playing also reflected the influence of musicians like Bix Beiderbecke and Bobby Hackett. His musical voice, though, was always very much his own.

Buddy Bolden

Born: September 6, 1877

Cornetist Buddy Bolden is one of the premier legendary figures of jazz. Credited as the founder of "jass," later to be called jazz, he was the first player to pursue an improvisational style. Much is unknown about Bolden's life, however, and it has been difficult for jazz historians to separate myth from reality, and the legend continues to grow. Charles Joseph Bolden was born in New Orleans to Westmore Bolden and Alice Harrison on September 6, 1877. In December of 1883, Bolden's father died and his mother began working to support the family. At the age of ten, Bolden, along with his mother and sister, Cara, moved to 385 First Street

Muggsy Spanier

Born: November 9, 1906

Muggsy Spanier - cornet Cornet player Muggsy Spanier was a member of the famed Austin High Gang and fell for jazz the minute he saw King Oliver playing live in Chicago. His first professional job came in 1921 with the Elmer Schoebel band. In 1927 Muggsy cut his first sides with the Chicago Rhythm Kings alongside Frank Teschemacher on clarinet, Mezz Mezzrow on tenor saxophone, Gene Krupa on drums and Eddie Condon on banjo and vocals. Muggsy was back in the studio in 1928 with the Jungle Kings which was the same group except George Wettling replaced Krupa on drums. In 1929 Spanier joined Ted Lewis and his Band appearing in two films, "Is Everybody Happy?"(1929) and "Here Comes The Band" (1935). He joined Ben Pollack's group in 1936 but left the band in 1938 due to a debilitating alcohol related illness that almost killed him

Bix Beiderbecke

Born: March 10, 1903

Early jazz legend Leon Bismark [Bix] Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, a mid-sized midwestern city. He attended Davenport schools until 1920 and showed an early aptitude for music. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy [IL] in 1921, but the opportunity to play and hear jazz in nearby Chicago was too distracting and eventually led to his expulsion. After several months working for his father in Davenport, he returned to Chicago. He played with several bands around Chicago joining the Wolverine Orchestra in 1924. Bix became well known through his playing and recordings with the Wolverines

Taylor Ho Bynum

Born: 1975

Taylor Ho Bynum (b.1975) is a musician, teacher, and writer, with a background including work in composition, performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, production, organizing, and advocacy.

His expressionistic playing on cornet and other brass instruments, his expansive vision as composer, and his idiosyncratic improvisational approach have been documented on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and over a hundred as a sideperson. Bynum enjoys playing with friends in collective ensembles like his duo with Tomas Fujiwara, Illegal Crowns (with Fujiwara, Benoit Delbecq, and Mary Halvorson), and Geometry (with Kyoko Kitamura, Tomeka Reid, and Joe Morris), and as a sideperson in Fujiwara’s Triple Double and Shizuko, Reid’s Stringtet and Septet, Jim Hobbs & the Fully Celebrated Orchestra, and Bill Lowe’s Signifyin’ Natives.

Don Gumpert

Born: February 25, 1931

Born St. Louis, Missouri. Started playing at age 6, first professional gig at age 11. Played various clubs in St. Louis, MO; Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Orlando, FL, etc.,; started at Rosie O'Grady's in 1968 in Pensacola, FL, and is still performing there on the first Sunday of each month. Took the first Dixieland band to Aruba in the early 1980s.

Lasse Tornqvist

Born: November 18, 1935

Donald E. Hale DDS

Born: May 17, 1934

Doug Burnley

Born: September 27, 1938

I have lead or played cornet in bands for 40 yrs, including the Capital City Jazz Band - Ottawa Ont , Excelsior Jazz Band & Hot Peppers Jazz Band in Toronto Ont,the Back Bay Stompers in Biloxi Miss, and Riverside Jazz Band in Florida. Currently I am playing with the "Jazz Rascals" and "Brass N' Ivory" in southwestern Ontario,Canada and have just launched the "Entertainers R' Us" entertainment and talent agency. In addition I specialze in the design of websites for bands & musicians under the names of -

Dynamic Web Design - http://www.dynamicwebdsgn.com

Performers-R-Us - http://performers-r-us.com