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Alphonse Picou
Picou (background) behind Papa Celestin. Photographed in New Orleans, 1950, by Stanley Kubrick.
Background information
Birth name
Alphonse Floristan Picou
Born
(1878-10-19)October 19, 1878 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Died
February 4, 1961(1961-02-04) (aged 82) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Genres
Jazz
Occupation(s)
Clarinetist
Instrument(s)
Clarinet
Musical artist
Alphonse Floristan Picou (October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961)[1] was an important very early American jazz clarinetist, who also wrote and arranged music. He was born and died in New Orleans, Louisiana.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1956. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
Alphonse Floristan Picou (October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961) was an important very early American jazz clarinetist, who also wrote and arranged music...
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clarinetists Sydney Bechet, Lorenzo Tio, George Baquet, Big Eye Nelson and AlphonsePicou, violinists Armand Piron and James A. Palao, trombonist George Filhe...
Garner to George Lewis, Eddie Condon, Phil Napoleon, Papa Celestin, AlphonsePicou, Muggsy Spanier, Sharkey Bonano, and others. Kubrick married his high-school...
some popularity amongst the New Orleans style of clarinet players. AlphonsePicou was an adherent and can be seeing performing High Society on YouTube...
Clarinet obbligato in Porter Steele's "High Society" (1901), added by AlphonsePicou Piano obbligato in the third movement of Frederik Magle's symphonic...
genre through much of the big band era into the 1940s. American players AlphonsePicou, Larry Shields, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Sidney Bechet were all...
settling in New Orleans in 1930, she played in the bands of A.J. Piron, AlphonsePicou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. Wilhelmina (Billie) Goodson was born...
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Christopher Goldston, cornetist Joe Oliver, trumpeter Mutt Carey, clarinetist AlphonsePicou, bassist Ricard Alexis and trumpeter Louis Armstrong. In 1932 Celestin...
Keppard organized the Olympia Orchestra around 1905. This band featured AlphonsePicou on clarinet. As a Creole band, the Olympia Orchestra would have been...
singer and actress January 14 – Henry Geehl, pianist, 79 February 4 – AlphonsePicou, jazz musician February 7 – Noah Lewis, jug band musician February 20...
Pichon (1906–1967) – jazz pianist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter AlphonsePicou (1878–1961) – jazz clarinetist De De Pierce (1904–1973) – trumpeter...
Frank Christian Eddie Edwards Nick LaRocca Gussie Mueller Alcide Nunez AlphonsePicou Larry Shields Henry Ragas Tony Sbarbaro Ragbaby Stephens Lee, William...
cornetist. Under Keppard, the group's personnel included Joseph Petit, AlphonsePicou, Sidney Bechet, Louis Keppard and Ernest Trepagnier; under Piron, they...
bass, and drums. The ensemble featured Buddy Petit, Joseph Petit, AlphonsePicou, Billy Marrero, and Lawrence Marrero as members. In the 1920s, D'Jalma...
dirges, and hymns. Among its members were John Robichaux, George Baquet, AlphonsePicou, Luis Tio (Lorenzo Tio's uncle), Lorenzo Tio Sr. (Lorenzo Tio's father)...
guitarist (d. 1937) October 19 Hermann Claudius, lyricist (died 1980) AlphonsePicou, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1961) November 4 – Jean Schwartz, Hungarian-born...
thriving community and has been home to many famous musicians, including AlphonsePicou, George Lewis, and Kermit Ruffins. Shannon’s grandmother Veronica Batiste...
New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Barnes studied under Lorenzo Tio Jr., AlphonsePicou, George Baquet, and Louis Nelson Delisle (also known as "Big Eye" Louis...
Robinson, John Casimir, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sweet Emma Barrett, AlphonsePicou, George Guesnon, Isidore Barbarin, Louis Keppard, Chinee Foster, Black...
Haugerud, Ugonna Okegwo, and Winard Harper. 1961 in jazz, deaths of AlphonsePicou, Booker Little, Cuba Austin, Freddy Johnson, George Formby, Miff Mole...
Uncle Gaspard, Cajun vocalist and guitarist (died 1937) October 19 – AlphonsePicou, jazz clarinettist (died 1961) October 31 – Roberta Lawson, Indigenous...
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