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Ferbos with the New Orleans WPA Band, 1937. Lionel Ferbos was born on July 17, 1911, in New Orleans, in the city's Creole 7th Ward.He said he had asthma and his parents would not let him take up a wind instrument, but when he was 15 he saw Phil Spitalny's all-girl orchestra at the Orpheum and argued that he ought to be able to do anything a girl could do.
The Famous Door was a jazz club on New York's 52nd Street. It opened in 1935 and was one of the major clubs on the street, hosting leading jazz musicians until 1950, through changes of location and periods of closure.
Cane Hill (band) Cash Money Millionaires; Cha Wa; Chef Menteur (band) Chocolate Milk (band) Chopper City Boyz; Clearlight (American band) The Cold (rock band) Cowboy Mouth; Crescent City Orchestra; Crowbar (American band)
Lou Sino (August 16, 1930 – July 30, 1986) was a New Orleans trombonist and singer who came to prominence as a member of Louis Prima's backing band The Witnesses, led by Sam Butera. He also released a number of his own recordings with his band The Bengals.
He achieved some fame with this band, ranking as top clarinetist in the DownBeat magazine polls of 1940 and 1941. After leaving Crosby, he worked in bands in Chicago, New York, and New Orleans, including time with George Brunies at the Famous Door, before settling in New Orleans in 1943. Although musicians told him he could find greater fame ...
Early New Orleans jazz bands had habaneras in their repertoire and the tresillo/habanera figure was a rhythmic staple of jazz at the turn of the 20th century. Comparing the music of New Orleans with the music of Cuba, Wynton Marsalis observes that tresillo is the New Orleans "clave". [25]
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Louis Paul Bankston (December 18, 1972 [1] – February 12, 2022), better known as King Louie Bankston, was an American rock and roll musician from New Orleans.Associated early on with garage punk, he abandoned the genre in 1998 and focused on Louisiana swamp pop, boogie woogie, boogie rock, and power pop.