Emanuel Sayles

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Emanuel "Manny" Sayles (born January 31, 1907 in Donaldsonville , Louisiana ; † October 5, 1986 ) was an American musician ( guitar , banjo , vocals ) of New Orleans jazz .

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As a child, Emanuel Sayles first learned violin and viola , then self-taught banjo and guitar. After graduating from high school in Pensacola, Florida , he moved to New Orleans , where he played in William Ridgley 's Tuxedo Orchestra. Sayles then worked in the 1920s with Fate Marable , Armand Piron and Sidney Desvigne on river steamers, in 1929 he participated in the sessions of the Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight . After moving to Chicago in 1933, he led his own formation and was otherwise active as an accompanist in the field of jazz and blues ; so he worked in the following years a. a. with Roosevelt Sykes .

Sayles returned to New Orleans in 1949, played with local musicians, also with George Lewis , with whom he went on a tour of Japan in 1963/64, and with Sweet Emma Barrett . In 1960 he worked with Punch Miller in Cleveland and lived in Chicago from 1965 to 1967, where he worked as a resident musician for Jazz Ltd. worked. After returning to New Orleans in 1968, he played regularly in the Preservation Hall until the 1980s . From 1929 to 1984 he participated in 99 recording sessions in the field of jazz. a. with Sammy Rimington ( On Washington Avenue ), Kid Thomas Valentine , Earl Hines (1975), Peter Bocage , Louis Cottrell ; He recorded under his own name for the label GHB (1962), Nobility (1963), Dixie (1969) and the Italian label Big Lou (1969). Edward C. Kurtz junior made the documentary This Cat Can Play Anything about him .

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  3. Obituary at Nola.com