Kid Rena

Henry "Kid" Rena ( born August 30, 1898 in New Orleans, Louisiana, † April 25, 1949 ) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader of the New Orleans Jazz.

Kid Rena said to have had the trumpeter Manuel Perez lessons. He replaced Louis Armstrong in the band of Kid Ory, when he played with Fate Marable on Mississippi riverboats. As Ory in 1922 moved to Los Angeles, he stayed in New Orleans and founded his own band, with which he was several times in Chicago in the next two years. Later he took over the Eureka Brass Band until 1932 he founded its own brass band. Rena succeeded with his bands also to survive the Great Depression of the 1930s, which became extinct in the Jazz in New Orleans almost and musicians like Bunk Johnson had to look for other pursuits. In 1940 he was one of the first musicians to the onset of Dixieland Revival made ​​in New Orleans recordings - as head of a band in which, inter alia, played Alphonse Picou. But Rena was in 1947 because of health problems ( he was an alcoholic ) no longer play and died two years later.