Paul Mares
Paul Mares (born June 15, 1900 New Orleans , † August 18, 1949 in Chicago ) was an American jazz trumpeter (also cornet ) and conductor of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings .
Mares came from a wealthy family of French descent. His father Joseph E. Mares ran a fur trade and also played cornet in a military band. Paul Mares was a protégé of Papa Jack Laine and played early with his childhood friends Abbie and George Brunies and Leon Roppolo and in the band of Tom Brown . In 1919 he went to Chicago , where he played with George Brunies and "Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland". Then he played with Brunies and Roppolo on paddle steamers on the Mississippi , before they accepted an engagement as a band in the " Friar's Inn " in Chicago in 1921 . Under Mares as, it became the famous New Orleans Rhythm Kings , which had a great influence on the development of Chicago jazz .
After the band broke up, he returned to New Orleans in 1924. For a short time he re-formed the band with Roppolo, but then got into the family business and only played jazz on the side. The business prospered and he was able to buy several houses. A legendary jam session took place in his house in 1929 between the musicians of Paul Whitemans Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and New Orleans jazz musicians. Mares also opened a restaurant "The New Orleans Bar-BQ" and in the early 1930s an offshoot Paul Mares New Orleans Barbeque in Chicago. The restaurant in New Orleans was a meeting place for jazz musicians, which also held jam sessions in which Mares occasionally played. In 1934/35 he recorded again with the newly released Rhythm Kings (Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra) and with the clarinetist Omer Simeon , Santo Pecora (trombone) and the alto saxophonist Boyce Brown (who later became a monk). During World War II he worked in an armaments factory. From 1945 he again led a band in the Chicago area. In 1949 he died of lung cancer.
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| SURNAME | Mares, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1949 |
| Place of death | Chicago |