Don Vappie

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Don Vappie performing at the Old Algiers Riverfest , New Orleans (2012)
Don Vappie in Lafayette Square (2011)

Donald "Don" Vappie (born June 30, 1956 in New Orleans ) is an American jazz musician ( guitar , banjo . Vocals , also mandolin , double bass , washboard ).

Live and act

Vappie comes from a Creole family of musicians; His relatives include the jazz musicians Papa John Joseph and Willie "Kaiser" Joseph. As a child, he first learned piano before playing a number of instruments such as double bass and guitar; eventually the tenor banjo became his main instrument. The first recordings were made in 1989 with the singer Lillian Boutté at the Breda Jazz Festival. In the following years he played a. a. with Wynton Marsalis ( Mr. Jelly Lord - Standard Time Vol. 6 , 1999), Dr. Michael White and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ("Jungle Bells", 1992), with Bob French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band , Doc Houlind / Nicholas Payton (1995), Harold Dejean , Terence Blanchard , Trevor Richards , Finn Burich Milton Batiste , Benny Waters , Doc Cheatham and Peggy Lee . In 1995 he performed with the Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne at the Burg Namedy Jazz Festival ; In 2006 he made a guest appearance in Hamburg as a member of an All-Stars-Formation ( European Jazz Giants , among others with Ian Wheeler , Keith Nichols , Peter "Banjo" Meyer ( Party All My Troubles Away )). He also worked with his own formations, such as his dad Don Vappie's New Orleans Jazz Band (album of the same name in 1986) and the Creole Jazz Serenaders , with whom he presented two albums.

On Creole Jazz , he played standards of early jazz musicians like Jabbo Smith and Harry Shields , Jelly Roll Morton , King Oliver and Sidney Bechet ; Offbeat magazine named it one of the 100 essential albums from Louisiana . His production In Search of King Oliver was the subject of a broadcast on National Public Radio ( In Search of King Oliver - a Celebration of Joe "King" Oliver's Music ).

In the field of jazz, Vappie was involved in 35 recording sessions between 1989 and 2014, most recently with Dee Dee Bridgewater ( Dee Dee's Feathers ). In 2017 he released the Christmas album A Very Vappie Christmas (Trilport Records).

Vappie teaches at Loyola University's School of Music; from 1998 he was also the presenter of the traditional jazz show of the New Orleans radio station WWOZ.

Discographic notes

  • Creole Blues (1997), with Jamil Sharif, Orange Kellin, Victor Goines, Tom Fischer, Lawrence Sieberth, Stanley Joseph, Ernest Elly
  • Banjo a la Creole (Vappielle Records, 2005), with Matt Lemmler, Tom Fisher, Alonzo Bowens Jr., Charlie Fardella, Grant Harris, Mark Brooks, Richard Moten, Herman Lebeaux, Johnny Vidocavich , Larry Sieberth
  • Reunion By Valsin (Vapielle, 2005), with Renald Richard, Plas Johnson , Leonard Julien, III, Thaddeus Richard, Richard Moten, Stan Joseph, Gwen Johnson
  • Don Vappie & Jazz Créole: The Blue Book of Storyville (2019), with David Horniblow, Dave Kelbie. Sébastien Girardot

Web links

Commons : Don Vappie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 20, 2017)
  2. ↑ Review of Don Vappie's album at Allmusic . Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Howard Reich: Jazz recordings swing in the holidays. Chicago Tribune, December 5, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Vappie, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vappie, Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans