Wooden Joe Nicholas
Joseph "Joe Wooden" N. Nicholas (* 23. September 1883 in New Orleans ; † 17th November 1957 ) was an American jazz musician ( trumpet , cornet , clarinet ), who in the early years of the New Orleans Jazz was active .
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Nicholas started out playing the clarinet, which he used as a second instrument in later years. By 1912, he played with the Four Hot Hounds of Richard M. Jones . He knew Buddy Bolden and said he was his most important role model on the cornet; another influence was Bunk Johnson . He did not begin to play this instrument until 1915 when he was clarinetist with King Oliver and played with Oliver's own cornet when he gave up. He spent most of his life in New Orleans and played for several decades in numerous brass bands and street ensembles in the city; he also founded the Camelia Brass Band in 1918 . During the Depression he taught and only performed occasionally. Nicholas was famous for the loudness and endurance of his playing, although this is not heard on many of his recordings, apart from "Shake It and Break It". His first recordings were made in 1945 with the Original Creole Stompers ("Eh La Bas", "Up Jumped the Devil") when he was 62 years old. He recorded again in 1949 under his own name with "Big Eye" Louis Nelson , as well as with the clarinetist Raymond Burke and the gospel singer Ann Cook .
Nicholas was the uncle of the clarinetist Albert Nicholas .
Discographic notes
- Wooden Joe Nicholas (American Music, 1945–49) with Jim Robinson , Joe Petit, Louis Nelson, Johnny St. Cyr , Alcide Pavageau , Baby Dodds
- At Artesian Hall (American Music, 1951)
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- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
- John Jörgensen, Erik Wiedemann : Jazz Lexicon . Munich, 1967
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| SURNAME | Nicholas, Wooden Joe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nicholas, Joseph N .; Nicholas, Wooden Joe N. (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (trumpet, cornet, clarinet) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1957 |
| Place of death | New Orleans |