Alcide Nunez
Alcide "Yellow" Nunez , even Alcide Nuñez, Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez (* 17th March 1884 St. Bernard Parish , Louisiana , † 2. September 1934 New Orleans ) was an American jazz - clarinetist of the New Orleans Jazz .
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Nunez was born in a place in the Mississippi Delta that belongs to the settlement area of the "Isleños" (as the Spaniards called the Canary Islands ), the Spanish "Cajuns", to which Nunez also belonged. The family moved to New Orleans when he was a child . Nunez played the guitar first, but switched to the clarinet in 1902. Soon he was one of the leading “hot” clarinetists in town and played with “ Papa Jack Laine 's Reliance Brass Band”, the trombonist Tom Brown (1888–1958) (“Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland”) and in his own bands . In 1916 he moved to Chicago with “Stein's Dixie Jass Band” , where he was a founding member of the “ Original Dixieland Jass Band ” and, after he was fired from this in 1916 for drinking, played with vaudeville bands and in Bert Kelly's band . In 1917 there was a dispute in court with Nick LaRocca , the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. Nunez had registered a copyright in revenge for the release of one of their big hits ("Livery Stable Blues"). In court, Nunez responded to the full-bodied self-praise of LaRocca, who called himself “Columbus of Jazz”, with a laconic “Blues is blues”. After all, neither of them got the copyright. In 1918 Nunez went back to New Orleans and joined the " Louisiana Five " of drummer Anton Lada . With this band he went to New York in 1919, it was very popular at the time and made recordings until 1920. From 1922 he played in the house band in the then hip nightclub “Kelly's Stables” in Chicago. After he was replaced there by Johnny Dodds , he returned to New Orleans in 1927, where he worked for the police and played in the "New Orleans Police Band".
His great-grandson Robert Nunez plays tuba with the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans.
Web links
- Alcide Nunez at Redhotjazz
- University of California, Santa Barbara: Digitized recordings with Alcide Nunez and the Louisiana Five
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| SURNAME | Nunez, Alcide |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nunez, Yellow (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Bernard Parish , Louisiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1934 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |