Lawrence Duhé

Lawrence Duhe ( born April 30, 1887 in LaPlace, Louisiana, † 1960 in Lafayette, Louisiana) was an American clarinetist and bandleader of the early jazz.

Life and work

Duhe worked with Kid Ory in LaPlace and moved in 1913 with Ory's band to New Orleans. In 1917 he left Kid Ory and took over the management of Sugar Johnny 's Creole Orchestra in Chicago, which, inter alia, Sidney Bechet, Mutt Carey, Freddie Keppard, Lil Hardin, Roy Palmer, Wellman Braud, Ed Garland and Joe King Oliver belonged. Oliver took over in 1919 Duhés band and formed from their King Oliver 's Creole Jazz Band. In the same year Duhe returned to Louisiana and played with Evan Thomas 's Black Eagles; He also initiated in the Four Corners in Lafayette several years own formation.

Duhés merit was the combination of minstrel material and precursors of jazz in Plantation - style and their urban continuation in New Orleans. As a musician with a good reputation in the older jazz musicians from New Orleans, he was a major source for jazz research; in a National Geographic article, his name was bowdlerized to " Dewey ".