Frankie Dusen

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Eagle Band 1916, from left Big Eye Nelson, Chinee Foster, Frankie Dusen (with slide trombone), Buddy Petit, Lorenzo Staulz, Dandy Lewis

Frank "Frankie" Dusen junior , also Duson (* 1880 in Algiers (Louisiana) ; † 1940 ) was an American (valve) trombonist and band leader of New Orleans jazz .

Dusen came from Algiers across from New Orleans on the Mississippi. He played in the band of Buddy Bolden in New Orleans and in 1907 took over the band from the increasingly demented Buddy Bolden and continued it as the Eagle Band . They were very popular in New Orleans until 1917. That year he decided to join Jelly Roll Morton in Los Angeles with other band members like Buddy Petit and Wade Whaley . Dusen and the others fell out with Morton, who made fun of the provincial dressed and provincial musicians from New Orleans. On his return to New Orleans in 1918, he formed a new band with which he also played on the Mississippi steamer SS Capitol. He later played occasionally with the Louis Dumaine orchestra . He died impoverished.

During his time in New Orleans, like Bolden, he was considered a womanizer and a gambler. Danny Barker described him as tall, who with his full black hair would look like an Indian and rarely smiled.

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  1. ↑ His grandson Bruce Harris at pbs 2012
  2. ↑ survival data for Redhot jazz. It is also given in 1881 or 1878
  3. ↑ According to other information, 1936
  4. ↑ Danny Barker Buddy Bolden and the last days of Storyville , Continuum 2001. According to the Redhot Jazz Archive, Jelly Roll Morton immortalized him unflatteringly as a pimp in his recording of Buddy Bolden's Blues from 1939. Text on the website of W. Royal Stokes I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : I thought I heard Frankie Dusen shout, Gal, give me that money — I'm gonna beat it out @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wroyalstokes.com
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SURNAME Dusen, Frankie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dusen, Frank junior; Dusen, Frankie junior (nickname); Duson, Frankie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American (valve) trombonist and band leader of New Orleans Jazz
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers (Louisiana)
DATE OF DEATH 1940