Louis Madison
Louis "Kid Shots" Madison (born February 19, 1899 in New Orleans , † September 1948 there ) was an American jazz trumpeter ( cornet ).
Madison took cornet lessons from Davey Jones , Joe Howard and Louis Dumaine . In his youth he played in a street band with Louis Armstrong (where he took over the drums). He played in the Eagle Brass Band and from 1923 to 1925 in the Original Tuxedo Orchestra of Oscar Celestin . He then spent a year in the band of William Ridgley and in the Great Depression in the state with funds from the Worker's Programs Association sponsored brass band in New Orleans. In the 1940s he played in the Young Tuxedo Band and the Eureka Brass Band . In the 1940s he had a day job with the health department and nightly game at the Cadillac Club and later at Lake Pontchartrain . In 1948 he had a stroke and gave up the music.
He recorded with George Lewis and in 1945 in a band directed by Bunk Johnson .
Lexical entry
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Web links
- Louis Madison at Allmusic (English)
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| SURNAME | Madison, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Madison, Kid Shots (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter (cornet) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1948 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |