Emanuel Sayles

Emanuel " Manny" Sayles ( born January 31, 1907 in Donaldsonville, Louisiana; † 5 October 1986) was an American musician (guitar, banjo, vocals) of New Orleans jazz.

Life and work

Emanuel Sayles learned as a child, first violin and viola, then self-taught banjo and guitar. After graduating from high school in Pensacola (Florida ), he moved to New Orleans, where he played in William Ridgley 's Tuxedo Orchestra. Sayles then worked in the 1920s with Fate Marable, Armand Piron and Sidney Desvigne on riverboats, in 1929 he took part in the sessions of the Jones & Collins Astoria Hot Eight with. After moving to Chicago in 1933 he led his own formation and was otherwise active as an accompanist in the field of jazz and blues; he worked in the following years, inter alia, with Roosevelt Sykes.

Sayles went back to New Orleans in 1949, played with local musicians, as well as with George Lewis, with whom he 1963/64, went on a tour of Japan, and with Sweet Emma Barrett. In Cleveland, he worked in 1960 with Punch Miller, who lived from 1965 to 1967 in Chicago, where he was a house musician for jazz Ltd.. worked. After his re- return to New Orleans in 1968, he played up in the 1980s regularly at Preservation Hall. He worked in the field of jazz from 1929 to 1984 at 99 recording sessions, including with Sammy Rimington (On Washington Avenue ), Kid Thomas Valentine, Earl Hines (1975 ), Peter Bocage, Louis Cottrell; under his own name he took for the label GHB (1962), Nobility (1963 ), Dixie (1969) and the Italian label Big Lou (1969 ) on. Edward C. Kurtz junior turned on him the documentary This Cat Can Play Anything.