Wilbur de Paris

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Wilbur de Paris (January 11, 1900 – January 3, 1973) was a trombone player and band leader, especially known for mixing New Orleans jazz style with Swing.^[1] Paris had a brother who was also a musician, Sidney De Paris. The de Paris brothers started a band in the late 1940s they called, "New New Orleans Jazz." It featured the famed Jelly Roll Morton clarinetist Omer Simeon. Other legendary jazzmen who served in the band from time to time were 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. The band recorded extensively. Today the band's studio output is available on the Collectibles label; while all of their "live" radio performance are available on the Jazz Crusade label on CD.

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