Waldren ‘Frog’ Joseph

b. 12 Sept 1918, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 19 Sept 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Joseph was created right into a musical family members where his dad and four brothers had been all musicians, nonetheless it was a sister who trained him to try out piano. Then learned to try out bass, dealing with Child Howard’s music group. Next, he turned to drums but ultimately settled using the trombone simply because his instrument of preference although he continuing to try out piano and bass over time. In the 30s, he performed in the Joseph Robichaux big music group, and he also performed in a little group associated blues vocalist Ida Cox. In the 50s and 60s, Joseph’s playing design, which blended soft swing styling using the better quality New Orleans trombone design, suited bands such as for example those led by Paul Barbarin, Louis Cottrell Jnr. , Albert France, and the initial Tuxedo Jazz Music group. With the last mentioned, he documented and toured European countries and Scandinavia. In the 80s, Joseph performed regularly and occasionally documented with trumpeter Clive Wilson’s First Camellia Jazz Music group. Among other music artists with whom he performed are trumpeters Percy Humphrey and Jabbo Smith, pianists Lars Edegran and Jeanette Kimball, banjo participant Les Muscutt and drummer John Robichaux. Edges he manufactured in the 50s with Barbarin have already been reissued on Compact disc under Humphrey’s name. Through his durability, Joseph, who was simply always a protected and workmanlike musician, became among the last staying links with early jazz to survive in to the twenty-first century.