Willie Pajeaud

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Willie Pajeaud (* 1895 , † 1960 ) was an American musician of New Orleans Jazz ( trumpet , also vocals ) and band leader .

Willie Pajeaud played in bars in New Orleans in the early 1920s. a. with Sidney Vigne, Louis Nelson Delisle (1925) and in the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band . In the Alamo Club he performed with his own jazz band, in which u. a. and Danny Barker and (as his successor) George Guesnon played. In 1946 the trumpeter became a member of the Eureka Brass Band (as successor to Dominique Remy ) , to which he belonged until the end of the 1950s, and to whose recordings he participated. In New Orleans he also performed with his Willie Pajeaud's New Orleans Band , which u. a. the singer Blu Lu Barker also belonged. Discographer Tom Lord lists his involvement in eight recording sessions between 1951 and 1958.

Discographic notes

  • The Larry Borenstein Collection, Vol. 2: Willie Pajeaud's New Orleans Band (504 Records, 1955) with Raymond Burke , Danny Barker, Len Ferguson, Blue Lu Barker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Karst: The strange death of early jazz musician Sidney Vigne (2017) in NOLA.com
  2. ^ Sally Newhart: The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band: More than a Century of a New Orleans Icon . 2013
  3. ^ Danny Barker, Alyn Shipton: Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville . 2001, p. 135.
  4. ^ Richard H. Knowles: Fallen Heroes: A History of New Orleans Brass Bands . Jazzology Press, 1996
  5. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .
  6. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
personal data
SURNAME Pajeaud, Willie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
DATE OF DEATH 1960