Emile Christian

Emile Joseph Christian ( born April 20, 1895 in New Orleans, † December 3, 1973 ) was an American New Orleans jazz musician (trombone, double bass, cornet) and composer.

Emile Christian comes from a musical family in New Orleanser Bywater neighborhood; His brother was the trumpet player and bandleader Frank Christian. Emile Christian began his career with his brothers in local bands, he played both cornet and trumpet in the bands of Papa Jack Laine and Baby Alfred Laine. He led a first own group and played until 1917 in his brother's band Frank, before he moved to Chicago in late 1917. There he worked as a trombonist in Bert Kelly Jass band. In 1918 he went to New York City, replacing Eddie Edwards in the Original Dixieland Jass Band, with He toured England. The repertoire of the band he was entitled " Satanic Blues" at; with her, he also made his first recordings.

After a brief membership with the Original Memphis Five, he returned to Europe, where he worked with various jazz bands in Berlin ( where recordings were made ) the mid-1930s, Paris and other cities worked. After years in Europe and India, where he played in 1936 with Leon Abbey, he returned after the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 returned to New York. In the 1950s he moved back to New Orleans and played in the bands of Leon Prima, Santo Pecora, Sharkey Bonano and with its own formation. In 1957 he went with the band of Louis Prima on tour. He was until 1969 active as a musician in New Orleans, but played mostly bass.

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• Emile Christian and His New Orleans Jazz Band ( Southland, 1958)

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• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-14-102327-9 (8th Edition)