Mutt Carey
Thomas " Mutt" Carey, known as " Papa Mutt" ( born December 25, 1891 in Hahnville, Louisiana, † September 3, 1948 in Elsinore, near San Francisco) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader of the New Orleans Jazz.
Life and work
Carey moved in early youth with his family to New Orleans. He first played drums and joined in 1912 on cornet to play in the band of his older brother Jack Carey, a trombonist. In 1917, he toured in vaudeville, joined, among others, with Lawrence Duhe up in Chicago and played again and again with Kid Ory (eg in 1914 ), with whom he went to California in 1919. In 1921 he went with his Ory there first recordings, which are the first recordings of an African American band from New Orleans at the same time. They were published by the Sunshine Label Brothers spikes in Los Angeles ( therefore figured here Kid Ory 's "Original Creole Jazz Band " as " Spike 's Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra " and " Sunshine Band " ): " Society Blues" and " Ory 's Creole Trombone " and accompaniments of two blues singers ( Ruth Lee and Roberta Dudley ) were added. After Gunther Schuller his playing time was "safe, elegant and imaginative ." As Ory moved to Chicago, Carey took over the band in Los Angeles and played with her a part of the 1930s. Then he worked as a sleeping-car and postman. In the New Orleans Revival in 1944, he was reunited on the West Coast with Ory. In 1947 he went to New York City; a year before his death, he founded his own band again, "Mutt Carey and his New Yorkers " (with Baby Dodds, Danny Barker, Pops Foster, Albert Nicholas, Ed Hall, Jimmy Archey ), with whom he also made recordings. He also took up with Thomas and Hociel with Bunk Johnson. Along with Joe Oliver was Mutt Carey, the first cornet in New Orleans, the " freakish sounds" einbaute then called in his game, so the alienation of sounds eg with the help of a wide variety of dampers.