Manuel Perez (musician)

Emanuel Perez called Manuel (* December 28, 1871, † 1946 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter (cornet ) and band leader of the New Orleans Jazz

Perez came from a Creole family with Spanish, French and African American ancestors. He has already played in the 1880s in "Brass Bands ". Perez was trained musically and could, unlike many other former jazz musicians play from sheet. In 1900 he joined the Onward Brass Band, which he headed from 1903 to 1930. He also founded the Imperial Orchestra in 1901, which existed until 1908. The Onward Brass Band was one of the leading marching bands in New Orleans. It included, inter alia, King Oliver, Peter Bocage, Lorenzo Tio, George Baquet on. Louis Armstrong recalls in his autobiography to have followed as a boy band and admired the duets by Oliver ( at the second trumpet) and Perez. 1915 Perez went to Chicago, where he played with Charles Elgar 's Creole Orchestra in Arsonia Cafe and the band of Arthur Sims. In the 1920s he was back in New Orleans, where he among other things, with the Maple Leaf Orchestra played at parades and on the Mississippi riverboats with Fate Marable. In 1926, he made ​​his only recordings with the orchestra by Elgar in Chicago. During the Depression, worked in the moving company of his brother. He sold used furniture in the accompanying second-hand shop and also took his job in the manufacture of cigars again. As the interest in early jazz awoke in the 1930s, Perez refused to give information. He had several strokes in the 1940s and ultimately died because 1946.

He influenced by his game not only King Oliver and Armstrong, but also others such as trumpeter Kid Rena and even Buddy Bolden. Sidney Bechet also expresses in his memoirs of his admiration for the " musicianer " Perez.