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Sidney De Paris

American jazz trumpeter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sidney De Paris
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Sidney De Paris (May 30, 1905 – September 13, 1967)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter. His brother was Wilbur de Paris.[1]

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He was a member of Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten (1926–1931), worked with Don Redman (1932–1936 and 1939), followed by periods with Zutty Singleton (1939–1941), Benny Carter (1940–41), and Art Hodes (1941).[1] De Paris recorded with Jelly Roll Morton (1939) and Sidney Bechet (1940),[1] and was part of the Panassie sessions in 1938. From 1947, and throughout the 1950s, he performed almost exclusively with his brother, Wilbur.[1][2]

He suffered from ill health in the latter years of his life, before he died in September 1967, at the age of 62.[3]

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Partial discography

  • 1944 - Jimmy Ryan's & The Uptown Cafe Society (Commodore, 1980) - De Paris Brothers, Edmond Hall
  • 1944 - Jamming in Jazz (Blue Note, 1944) - Hall-De Paris
  • 1951 - Sidney Deparis' Blue Note Stompers (Blue Note, 1951) - 10" reissued as Deparis Dixie (Blue Note, 1944)
  • 1951 - Dixieland Hits Country & Western (Swingville, 1962) - Leonard Gaskin Dixielanders

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