Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Spring 2006 - (Page 10) LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM right: Tony Sbarbaro (Spargo) (1897-1969) played with “Papa” Jack Laine’s Reliance Band and with Merrit Brunies before joining the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) in Chicago in 1916. The ODJB was the first jazz band to record, with their “Livery Stable Blues” in 1917, and that makes Spargo the first jazz drummer to be recorded. below: Paul Barbarin (1899-1969) was from a musical family. His father Isidore was the leader of The Onward Brass Band, and all of his brothers were very involved in the music of New Orleans. As a teenager, he started drumming with bands like Buddy Petit's Young Olympians. He left the Crescent City in 1917 and found work in the Armour and Company stockyards in Chicago, while still managing to play music by night. In 1960 he re-formed his father's Onward Brass Band and played at Preservation Hall. He died in 1969 while he was leading The Onward Brass Band in a street parade. Joplin. It was called syncopation before I even started playing.” Getting his professional start with the Uptown dance bands led by Frankie Dusen and Kid Ory, Dodds graduated into Fate Marable’s riverboat band in 1918, where he played with legends Louis Armstrong, Pops Foster, and Johnny St. Cyr. In 1921, Joe “King” Oliver recruited Dodds to perform in San Francisco and eventually Chicago, where he settled permanently. After 1924, Dodds left Oliver to join two legendary orchestras, Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven. During the 1930s, Dodds collaborated with his brother Johnny and following his brother’s death in 1940, Dodds moved on to Jimmie Noone and Bunk Johnson’s bands. Dodds also made a number of instructional recordings during his career. Today, visitors can see his full drum set, generously donated by his nephew, at the Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge. Zutty Singleton Born in Bunkie, Louisiana, Arthur “Zutty” Singleton eventually played in New Orleans in the orchestras of Oscar “Papa” Celestin and Luis Russell and on riverboats with Fate Marable’s band in the early 1920s. In 1924 he married St. Louis jazz pianist Margie Creath and made his way to Chicago where he played on several of the Louis Armstrong Hot Five records. About this time he also recorded with Jelly Roll Morton and Barney Bigard and later played with Sidney Bechet and Roy Eldridge. He spent the latter part of his career mostly in Los Angeles and New York, where he performed with a host of musicians. The Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection selection of the photographs was published by Dr. Souchon and Al Rose as New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album (LSU Press, 1967). Over the past year, the Louisiana State Museum scanned some 2,000 photographs from its Jazz Collection. Hosted on the LOUISiana Digital Library Web site, these amazing images document the rich history of jazz in Louisiana and are now accessible to fans, educators, and students interested New Orleans jazz history. Please check out the Jazz Collection photographs at http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/JAZ/Pages/home.html. 10 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Spring 2006 The Louisiana State Museum’s jazz photography collection, consisting of approximately 12,000 photographs, is one of the most extensive documentary collections of New Orleans jazz in the United States. Most major jazz photographers are represented in the collection, including Grauman Marks, Marcel Joly, Floyd Levin, Syndey Byrd, Duncan Schiedt, Ed Lawless, George Fletcher, Ray Avery, and John Kuhlman. The quality and size of the core collection is due primarily to the efforts of Dr. Edmond Souchon, Myra Menville, Helen Arlt, and Don Marquis. A representative http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/JAZ/Pages/home.html http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/JAZ/Pages/home.html
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