Mutt Carey
Mutt Carey | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Thomas Carey |
| Also known as | Papa Mutt Carey |
| Born | September 17, 1891 Hahnville, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | September 3, 1948(1948年09月03日) (aged 56) Lake Elsinore, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instrument | Trumpet |
| Formerly of | Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band |
Thomas "Papa Mutt" Carey (September 17, 1891 – September 3, 1948) was an American jazz trumpeter.[1]
Early life
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Carey was born in Hahnville, Louisiana,[2] [3] and moved to New Orleans with his family in his youth. His older brother Jack Carey was a trombone player and bandleader; Mutt was playing cornet in his brother's band by about 1912.
Career
[edit ]Although Carey's early work was with brass bands in the New Orleans area (1913–17),[4] in 1914, he started working with Kid Ory [4] and would continue to do so, on and off, through the 1910s.
After touring the vaudeville circuits in 1917,[4] he returned to New Orleans in 1918[4] and then went to California with Ory in 1919,[4] eventually taking over leadership of the band when Ory left in 1925.[4]
Carey's big band, the Jeffersonians, appeared in the silent films The Legion of the Condemned and The Road to Ruin (both 1928).[4]
Carey rejoined Ory's band from around 1929 to 1933, when the lack of work during the Depression led him to work as a Pullman porter.[4] In 1941, he was a pallbearer at the funeral of Jelly Roll Morton in Los Angeles.[5]
In March 1944 Carey rejoined Ory in an all-star band that was a leader of the West Coast revival of traditional New Orleans jazz, put together for the CBS Radio series The Orson Welles Almanac . The All Star Jazz Group also included Ed Garland, Jimmie Noone (succeeded by Barney Bigard), Bud Scott, Zutty Singleton and Buster Wilson.[6] [7] [8] Renamed Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, the group then made a significant series of recordings on the Crescent Records label.[9]
Carey left Ory's band in 1947 to lead a group under his own name.[1]
Personal life
[edit ]Carey died in Lake Elsinore, California, on September 3, 1948, aged 56.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
- ^ Carr, Ian Fairweather Digby, and Priestley, Brian. The Rough Guide to Jazz, Third Edition. Rough Guides Ltd., 2004. p. 125.
- ^ Kernfedl, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Macmillan, 1994. p. 185.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Zieff, Bob. "Carey, (Papa) Mutt". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- ^ "Bury Jelly Roll Morton on Coast". DownBeat . 8 (15): 13. August 1, 1941. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Radio Almanac". RadioGOLDINdex. Archived from the original on 2018年09月15日. Retrieved 2014年04月01日.
- ^ "Orson Welles Almanac—Part 1". Internet Archive . Retrieved 2014年04月01日.
- ^ "Orson Welles Almanac—Part 2". Internet Archive . Retrieved 2014年04月01日.
- ^ Ertegun, Nesuhi. Liner notes for Tailgate! Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band. Good Time Jazz Records L-10 and L-11, 1953, also used for Good Time Jazz Records L-12022, 1957.
External links
[edit ]- Mutt Carey 1891-1948 at the Red Hot Jazz Archive
- 1944 Orson Welles Broadcasts at The Kid Ory Archive
- 1945 Jade Palace at The Kid Ory Archive
- Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band: 1944–1945 The Legendary Crescent Recording Sessions at AllMusic (Scott Yanow)
- 1891 births
- 1948 deaths
- African-American jazz musicians
- American jazz trumpeters
- American male trumpeters
- Dixieland trumpeters
- Jazz musicians from New Orleans
- Jazz musicians from Chicago
- People from Hahnville, Louisiana
- Savoy Records artists
- American vaudeville performers
- 20th-century American trumpeters
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- Tuxedo Brass Band members
- 20th-century African-American musicians
- 20th-century Jazz musicians from New Orleans