Louis “Kid Shots” Madison

The trumpeter having a nickname just like a boxer inside a ’40s melodrama has historical credits on the brand new Orleans jazz scene worth a round-one knockout. He performed inside a music group for orphaned road urchins alongside non-e apart from Louis Armstrong, at that time wisely permitting Satchmo the brass responsibilities while Louis “Child Photos” Madison handled nicely within the 1st instrument perfected by any New Orleans participant, the drums. Quickly Madison would find out trumpet from historical yet shadowy numbers of mastery such as for example Joe Howard and Louis Dumaine. Another of Madison’s child years associates have been Child Rena. By the first ’20s the trumpet- and cornet-blowing Madison was dealing with Oscar Celestin and the initial Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra. Madison was a fixture in a number of of the primary brass rings in New Orleans through the ’20s and ’30s. Recordings can be found of him carrying out with such an organization under the path of Bunk Johnson in 1945; he also caused the Teen Tuxedo Brass Band as well as the Eureka Brass Band. His wellness wouldn’t normally last out the ’40s, however the last half from the 10 years was certainly a active one because of this guy, combining a normal evening musical get on the Cadillac Membership using a time job for the town board of wellness. A musician who was simply quite unique within an nearly total insufficient musical impact from beyond New Orleans, Madison also performed the music of his last years in the advantage of the town, at a place on the huge Lake Pontchartrain. He ended playing his horns carrying out a stroke at the start of 1948.