Wilber De Paris
And His New Orleans Jazz
That's A Plenty

Wilbur de Paris (1900-1973) was a trombone player and band leader, especially known for mixing New Orleans jazz style with Swing. De Paris was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where his father, Sidney G. Paris, who came from West Virginia and who was a musician (trombone, banjo, guitar), a circus barker, a ventriloquist and a minstrel. By 1906, when he was five, de Paris had started playing alto saxophone, and a year later was working for his father in one of his plantation shows. These shows were small travelling theatrical-musical groups of singers, dancers, actors, comedians, and musicians who mainly worked for Theatre Owners and Bookers Association in the South. They performed in small tents and theatres with a mixture of drama, musical and comedy sketches & magic which would later be incorporated into vaudeville. De Paris heard jazz first at age 16 as a member of a summer show that played at the Lyric Theatre. He also met Louis Armstrong whilst playing the saxophone at Tom Anderson's Cafe, and with A. J. Piron. After high school, de Paris worked for his father for a time, then worked for more travelling shows in the east, then started playing in Philadelphia in the early 1920s. His first band was Wilbur de Paris and his Cottonpickers. After the Wall Street Crash in 1929 he disbanded his second group and went to New York to play for many years with the greats of jazz and to make records. In the late 1940s, together with his brother, Sidney De Paris, he started a band called New New Orleans Jazz, featuring legendary jazzmen including the famed Jelly Roll Morton clarinetist Omer Simeon. Other band members included drummers Zutty Singleton & Freddie Moore. The banjo chair was filled first by Eddie Gibbs and later by Lee Blair also of Morton fame. Don Kirkpatrick was the band's most consistent piano player. This band became an institution in New York City during the 1950s and toured the world in the late 1950s. (web bio)

Tracklist:
That's A Plenty
Mack The Knife
Waiting For the Robert E Lee
Malta
Hesitatin Blues
Frankie And Johnny
In A Persian Market
Somebody Stole My Gal
Change O' Key Boogie

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