Armand J. Piron

Armand Piron, John ( born August 16, 1888 in New Orleans, † February 17, 1943, ibid ) was an American jazz violinist and band leader of the New Orleans Jazz.

Life

Armand Piron came from a Creole family and was unable to walk since childhood. From 1904 he played full time violin, had in 1908 a band, joined with Clarence Williams ( as a singer and pianist ) in vaudeville and led from 1913 Olympic Orchestra, which he took from Freddie Keppard and which also Bunk Johnson, Louis Nelson Delisle, Joe Oliver and Clarence Williams played. With Williams in 1915 he founded a music publishing house, in which he ( rose for the authors' claims, however, Louis Armstrong ) in the same year his biggest hit I wish I Could did shimmy like my sister Kate published. Some early jazz standards such as Royal Garden Blues were also published there first. After a short time in 1916 with Papa Celestin 's Tuxedo Orchestra and 1917 with WC Handy, he founded in 1918 his own Piron 's New Orleans Orchestra, which soon became the highest-paid black band in New Orleans, with regular appearances in the amusement park on the Spanish Fort and in the exclusive New Orleans Country Club at Lake Pontchartrain. In 1923 he went with his band to New York, where he was a permanent member of the Roseland Ballroom, played at the Cotton Club and recordings made ​​( eg with the blues singer Esther Bigeou ). The following year, his band members voted (including Lorenzo Tio, Steve Lewis, Peter Bocage ), where air and food did not appeal for a return to New Orleans, where Piron again with performances at the Country Club, in Tranchina 's Restaurant and the paddle steamers Capital and President well was in business until the 1930s. In 1935, he moved with his band to the then popular Swing style.