Waldren Joseph

Waldren " Frog" Joseph ( born September 12, 1918 in New Orleans, † September 19, 2004 ) was an American trombonist of the New Orleans jazz.

Joseph came from a musical family and played after he survived a polio disease that left him with a stiff leg, as a teenager, piano, drums and trombone eventually. He had his first job as a teenager on the excursion steamer SS Madison on Lake Pontchartrain, where he either played the piano, bass and trombone. Then he played in local bands and dance halls before he toured the end of the 1930s, several years with Joe Robichaux in the Southern States to Cuba. After that he was in the big band of Sidney Desvigne in New Orleans and in the Territory band of Clarence Love.

Joseph played with various rhythm and blues musicians like Lee Allen, Big Joe Turner, Earl King, Smiley Lewis and Dave Bartholomew and popular New Orleans jazz bands such as those of Albert " Papa " French, Paul Barbarin and Louis Cottrell junior. Most recently, he played in the original Camelia band of British trumpeter Clive Wilson.

He is the father of jazz musician Kirk Joseph ( sousaphone ) and trombonist Charles Joseph.