De Paris, Sidney

LC control no.	n 91049777
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	De Paris, Sidney *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Paris, Sidney de DeParis, Sidney
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1905-05-30
Death date	1967-09-13
Place of birth	Crawfordsville (Ind.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Commodore Records
Profession or occupation	Trumpet players Jazz musicians
Found in	De Paris, W. Marchin' and swingin' [SR] 196-?: container (Sidney de Paris) New Grove dictionary of jazz, 1988 (De Paris, Sidney; b. May 30, 1905, Crawfordsville, IN; d. Sep. 13, 1967, New York; trumpeter and tuba player) Dear old Southland, 2005: container (Sidney DeParis) insert (trumpeter Sidney DeParis) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (De Paris, Sidney; trumpeter, jazz musician; born 30 May 1905 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States; his blues-based growl style was first showcased on Johnson's Victor recordings of September 1928, Throughout the late 1920s he was considered one of the best hot trumpeters on the Harlem scene; in the spring of 1943 the De Paris brothers, with Wilbur as leader, took their own sextet into Jimmy Ryan's on Fifty-second Street, and in February 1944 they received their first joint billing as leaders on the Commodore label; he also had his own first date in June for Blue Note with an exceptional seven-piece group featuring the clarinetist Edmond Hall, the trombonist Vic Dickenson, and the pianist James P. Johnson; one of the four numbers recorded, The Call of the Blues, became his most memorable achievement; in September 1951 the De Paris brothers opened at Ryan's for what would prove to be the longest-lasting run of any jazz band on Fifty-second Street; died 13 September 1967 in New York, New York, United States)
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