Jack Carey

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Jack Carey (* 1889 in Hahnsville , Louisiana ; † 1934 ) was an American trombonist and band leader of early New Orleans jazz .

He was the older brother of the trumpeter Mutt Carey . Carey first played in Henry Allen's Brass Band in Algiers (Louisiana) around 1910 . He also played in the Eagle Band at times . From 1913 to 1920 he was director of the Crescent Orchestra (or Crescent City Orchestra), an early jazz and ragtime band. In 1913, Carey included: Mutt Carey on cornet, Wade Whaley or Willie Humphrey on clarinet, Tubby Hall on drums, Wiley "Pep" King on double bass, Charlie Moore on guitar. Later Pops Foster played bass (1916), Manuel Manetta violin, George Caldwell and George Boyd clarinet, Lorenzo Staulz (or Staultz) guitar and Papa Celestin there .

He is credited with the authorship of the Tiger Rag jazz standard by some authors (such as Samuel Charters ) , which Nick LaRocca of the Original Dixieland Jass Band ascribed to himself (and also Jelly Roll Morton ). After that, it had emerged from an old French quadrille and was known as Jack Carey or Play Jack Carey to black and Creole musicians in New Orleans (and as nigger number 2 among white musicians ). Other standard material of the original Dixieland Jass Band is said to come from Carey. Carey is said to have edited many French melodies and also pieces from Buddy Bolden's band , which he converted into the ragtime style.

Carey himself couldn't read notes.

He is also sometimes credited with helping develop the Tailgate style of trombone playing in New Orleans, along with Kid Ory .

In 1919 Carey Punch Miller took over the direction of the Crescent City Orchestra, but Carey continued to play in parades in New Orleans in the 1920s in the Kid Rena Brass Band .

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  1. ↑ Sometimes 1935 is also given
  2. ↑ The same thing Jelly Roll Morton later (1938) claimed to Alan Lomax
  3. ↑ It is also claimed that they adapted the other choruses to the clarinetist George Boyd and that Punch Miller was involved, but he did not join the band until 1919
  4. ^ Daniel Hardie Exploring Early Jazz , Writers Club Press 2002, pp. 90f
  5. ^ Al Rose, Edmond Souchon New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album , Louisiana State University Press, 3rd edition 1984
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SURNAME Carey, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trombonist and band leader of early New Orleans jazz
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hahnsville , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH 1934