Lawrence Duhé

Duhé is a redirect to this article. For the American singer and songwriter see Elley Duhé .

Lawrence Duhé (born April 30, 1887 in LaPlace , Louisiana , † 1960 in Lafayette , Louisiana) was an American clarinetist and band leader of early jazz .

Live and act

Duhé worked with Kid Ory in LaPlace and moved to New Orleans with Ory's band in 1913 . In 1917 he left Kid Ory and took over the direction of Sugar Johnny's Creole Orchestra in Chicago, the u. a. Sidney Bechet , Mutt Carey , Freddie Keppard , Lil Hardin , Roy Palmer , Wellman Braud , Ed Garland and Joe King Oliver . Oliver took over Duhés Band in 1919 and formed from it King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band . In the same year Duhé returned to Louisiana and played for Evan Thomas's Black Eagles ; He also led his own formation for several years at the Four Corners in Lafayette.

Duhé's merit was the combination of minstrel material and precursors of jazz in the Plantation style and their urban continuation in New Orleans. As a musician with a good reputation among the older New Orleans jazz musicians, he was an important source for jazz research ; in a National Geographic article his name was corrupted to "Dewey".

literature

• Daniel Hardie Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style Lincoln NE, 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait at satchmo.com (April 30) ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2012 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. 
2. ↑ Sugar Johnny's Creole Orchestra (Red Hot Jazz)
3. ^ Daniel Stein: Music Is My Life. Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz University of Michigan Press 2012, p. 164.
4. ^ Al Rose I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen Louisiana State University Press 1987, p. 242