Raymond Burke (clarinetist)

Raymond " Ray" Burke ( * June 6, 1904 in New Orleans as Raymond Barrois, † May 21, 1986 ) was an American jazz musician (clarinet, soprano saxophone) of Dixieland jazz.

Although Burke came from a musical family, but was self-taught; he spent up to a brief period in the late 1930s in Kansas City his career in the music scene of New Orleans. First, he played on the kazoo. Around 1920 he began to work as a professional musician and played the mid-1920s when Blind Gilbert and in the 1930s when Henry Forest Melon Pickers. In the following years he was a member of the bands of Sharkey Bonano, Johnny Wiggs, George Hartman, Wooden Joe Nicholas, Dukes of Dixieland, George Girard, Johnny St. Cyr and Kid Thomas Valentine. Occasionally Burke also led his own bands, with whom he had from 1960 performances at Preservation Hall. In 1960 he joined the band of Punch Miller. He remained active until the mid-1980s. Under his own name in 1937 was the title of Solitude; it was followed by a series of albums for the label New Orleans Records ( 1949), Paramount (1952 ), Southland (1953 & 1960), Land O ' Jazz ( 1975), 504 (1979) and Smoky Mary ( 1983).

Disco Graphical Notes

• Raymond Burke 's Speakeasy Boys - 1937-1949 (American Music) with Wooden Joe Nicholas, Johnny St. Cyr
• Raymond Burke / Paul Barbarin ( Southland, 10 " LP)
• Ken Colyer: Unknown New Orleans Sessions with Raymond Burke 1952-1953
• Raymond Burke and His New Orleans Jazz Band ( Southland, 1953) with Alvin Alcorn
• Crescent City Music: St. Louis Blues (GHB, 1957), with Phil Darois
• Kid Thomas band With Raymond Burke ( Jazzology, 1960)
• A Self- Portrait ( 1975)
• Kid Thomas and his Algiers Stompers with Raymond Burke New Orleans - The Legends Live - Vol 30

Lexical entries

• Carlo Bohländer et al: Reclams jazz leader. Stuttgart, Reclam, 1970