Sidney Desvigne

Sidney Desvigne (born 11 September 1895 in New Orleans, Louisiana; † December 2, 1959 in California ) was an American jazz trumpeter of New Orleans jazz.

Sidney Desvigne played from 1917 in Storyville, New Orleans in a number of New Orleans jazz bands such as the Excelsior Brass Band, Leonard Bechet Silver Bell Band, the Maple Leaf Orchestra and Ed Allen's Whispering gold band. Later played with Fate Marable Desvigne on Mississippi riverboats. In 1926 he founded his own orchestra, the St. Bernard 's Country Club and on the SS Iceland Queen played. In this formation played among others Red Allen, Pops Foster and Al Morgan. In the early 1930s, he tried with little success a Swing Big Band in New Orleans rebuild. In the 1950s, he left New Orleans and opened a club restaurant in Los Angeles.

Lexical entries

• John Jorgensen, Erik Wiedemann: Jazz Encyclopedia. Munich, Mosaic, 1967