Louis Nelson Delisle

"Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle ( born January 28, 1885 in New Orleans, Louisiana; † August 20, 1949 ) was an American jazz clarinetist of the New Orleans Jazz. He also played bass, banjo and accordion.

Life and work

Delisle studied clarinet with Lorenzo Tio senior (father of Lorenzo Tio ) and Luis Tio and already played 15 years professionally in the Storyville district of New Orleans. Around 1905, he was in the Imperial Orchestra in 1907 at the Golden Rule Orchestra, in the Imperial band with Manuel Perez and 1912 in the Superior Orchestra. He also played in the Eagle Band and Papa Celestin.

His early " hot" style of the clarinet repertoire - which at first he often used a C- Clarinet - influenced later New Orleans clarinetist Jimmie Noone and Johnny Dodds as. 1916/17 he toured with the "Original Creole Orchestra" ( which, inter alia, Freddie Keppard belonged ) in Boston and New York, but was later replaced by Jimmie Noone, after which he returned to New Orleans. He played in 1918 at the Lyric Theatre Orchestra and from 1918 to 1924 over and over again with John Robichaux. In 1925 he played with Willie Pajeaud and the late 1920s with Sidney Desvigne. 1939 to 1948 he had his own quartet in Luthjen 's Bistro in New Orleans. The only surviving recordings date from the last years of his career in the late 1940s (1949 ). He also took in 1940 with Kid Rena on.

He should not be confused with trombonist of the New Orleans Jazz Louis Nelson ( 1902-1990 ).

He also gave Sidney Bechet short lessons.

By his own account, he played with Buddy Bolden in 1900 in the orchestra of Henry Peyton during the Robert Charles Riot 's, but this is uncertain by Samuel Charters.

Disco Graphical Notes

As a leader:

• Louis Delisle 's Band, American Music 646, 1949, including Clarinet Marmalade, Dinah

As a sideman:

• Wooden Joe Nicholas Wooden Joe's band, American Music 646, 1949, including B-flat blues, Holler Blues
• Kid Rena, 1940 ( Delta 800 ), among others, Milenberg Joys, Clarinet Marmalade, Panama; next Delisle played there also Alphonse Picou with