Louis Cottrell junior
Louis Albert Cottrell Junior (born March 7, 1911 in New Orleans , † March 21, 1978 ibid) was an American clarinetist and tenor saxophonist of New Orleans jazz . He directed the Heritage Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans.
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As the son of the influential jazz drummer Louis Cottrell senior, Cottrell was involved in musical life in New Orleans from an early age. He learned the clarinet from Barney Bigard and Lorenzo Tio . As a student of Tio, he favored the Albert system of clarinet playing like many Creole musicians in New Orleans.
Cottrell played in the Golden Rule Orchestra from the mid-1920s, with Polo Barnes (1925), Chris Kelly and Kid Rena . In 1929 he played on the Mississippi steamer SS Island Queen with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band of Lawrence Marrero and then with the orchestra of Don Albert , with whom he recorded for Vocalion in 1935 and with whom he toured the United States until 1939. He then returned to New Orleans, where he began a collaboration with Paul Barbarin in 1940 , which continued into the 1950s and 1960s (he recorded with him in 1951 and 1955 and renewed the Onward Brass Band with him in 1960 ). In 1941 he played with Armand Piron and from 1942 to 1947 with Sidney Desvigne .
After the success of a recording in the Living Legends series in 1961, he continued his trio formed for the recording. He led the Onward Brass Band, which he and Barbarin revived in 1960, after his death in 1969. Cottrell led the Onward Brass Band until his own death in 1978, after which it disintegrated. In 1967 he was in Vietnam for the US troop support. In 1971 he founded the Heritage Hall Jazz Band, which competed with the better-known Preservation Hall Jazz Band and with whom he performed and recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1974 .
As a sideman he played u. a. with Peter Bocage , Jim Robinson , Sweet Emma Barrett and Paul Barbarin.
He was active as a unionist and organized the subdivision for colored musicians in Local 496 of the American Federation of Musicians . In 1956 he became its president. He was as well known in New Orleans as a unionist as he was a musician and worked tirelessly for equal treatment of musicians of all races.
As a composer, he wrote You Don't Love me (True) with Lloyd Glenn and Don Albert , which became an early rhythm and blues hit with Paul Gayten . His recording of Big Lip Blues is in the film music of Pretty Baby by Louis Malle (1978).
His grandson Louis Cottrell is a jazz drummer in New Orleans (including Young Tuxedo Brass Band ).
Discography
- New Orleans: The Living Legends, Riverside Records 1961 (with McNeal Breaux, Alcide Pavageau , Emanuel Sayles )
- Dixieland Hall presents Louis Cottrell and his New Orleans Jazz Band, Nobility 1963
- New Orleans Heritage Hall Jazz Band, GNP Crescendo Records 1973
- Louis Cottrell´s Heritage Hall Jazz Band Live at Carnegie Hall , Viko 1974 (with Blanche Thomas , vocals)
Lexical entries
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The first Onward Brass Band was led by Manuel Perez from 1903 until it was dissolved in 1930
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cottrell, Louis Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cottrell, Louis Albert Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1978 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |