Emile Christian

I'm enjoying the music of early New Orleans jazz trombonist Emile Christian on his birthday.


Wikipedia: Emile Christian

Music samples (via YouTube except where otherwise noted):

Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 1919: Satanic Blues (Christian is listed as co-composer)
Ditto Lassus Candy
Ditto, 1920 Soudan One of the pseudo-Near Eastern numbers popular at the time. Pardon the presenter's spoken introduction.

Christian spent most of the 1920s with various bands in Europe.

Eric Borchard's Jazzband 1924: Aggravatin' Papa

Lud Gluskin band 1929: Milenburg Joys
Ditto Doin' The New Low Down Christian vocalizes and has a little nice solo

Back home in New Orleans in his later years:

Johnny Wiggs band 1954: If Ever I Cease to Love (on Picosong) Playing an old New Orleans Mardi Gras standard, the band falls into an old mostly ensemble New Orleans style.

Johnny Wiggs band 1956: Gallatin Street Grind