Wilbur De Paris

Wilbur De Paris ( born January 11, 1900 in Crawfordsville, Indiana; † January 3, 1973 in New York, NY ) was an American jazz trombonist, composer and band leader of the Dixieland jazz.

Life

Wilbur De Paris got seven years old horn and played with the roving with vaudeville shows his father's band. In the early 1920s he played for the first time in New Orleans on tour with " Mack's Merrymakers ". In the early 1920s, he also played with Stuff Smith and his own band founded in 1925 in Philadelphia. In the 1930s he played among others Noble Sissle, with whom he first went to Europe in 1931 or Benny Carter and Teddy Hill, with whom he went on a European tour in 1937. 1938 to 1941 he played with Louis Armstrong, whom he knew from New Orleans, and founded his own band again in 1943 in which his trumpet -playing brother Sidney De Paris participated. Among other things, he played in the 1940s with Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Eldridge and 1945 to 1947 by Duke Ellington.

He then founded the " New New Orleans Band", which mixed the traditional Dixieland jazz with swing influences and used elaborate arrangements along the lines of Jelly Roll Morton's " Red Hot Peppers ". Wilbur De Paris had as his brother repeatedly played with Morton ( and recorded) and also brought Morton musicians such as clarinetist Omer Simeon and drummer Freddie Moore in the band. Besides his brother also played frequently Doc Cheatham on trumpet with who renounced Growl effects unlike Sidney De Paris on trumpet. Other band members were temporarily Zutty Singleton on drums, Don Kirkpatrick on piano and Eddie Gibbs and Lee Blair on banjo ( Blair played earlier also at Morton ). The " New New Orleans Band" was very successful in the 1950s in New York and began in the late 1950s the world to go on tour. In 1957 she represented the United States on the Independence celebration of Ghana and played in 1960 at the first Jazz Festival in Antibes. After his brother 's death in 1967 Wilbur De Paris occurred only occasionally.