Alphonse Floristan Picou (October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961) was an important very early American jazz clarinetist, who also wrote and arranged music...

Look up picou or Picou in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Picou is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alphonse Picou (1878–1961), American...

educator Alphonse Mouzon (1948–2016), American jazz fusion drummer and percussionist Alphonse Picou (1878–1961), American early jazz clarinetist Alphonse Trent...

clarinetists Sydney Bechet, Lorenzo Tio, George Baquet, Big Eye Nelson and Alphonse Picou, violinists Armand Piron and James A. Palao, trombonist George Filhe...

Louisiana, Alphonse Picou adapted the piccolo part into a clarinet variation, sometimes considered one of the earliest documented jazz solos. The Picou variations...

was established here. Musicians from Tremé include Doreen Ketchens, Alphonse Picou, Kermit Ruffins, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Lucien Barbarin, and...

– ophicleide Pat Metheny – orchestrion Charlie Mariano – nadaswaram Alphonse Picou – piccolo Sidney Bechet – sarrusophone Collin Walcott – sitar Andy Narell...

Christopher Goldston, cornetist Joe Oliver, trumpeter Mutt Carey, clarinetist Alphonse Picou, bassist Ricard Alexis and trumpeter Louis Armstrong. In 1932 Celestin...

Garner to George Lewis, Eddie Condon, Phil Napoleon, Papa Celestin, Alphonse Picou, Muggsy Spanier, Sharkey Bonano, and others. Kubrick married his high-school...

Robinson, John Casimir, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sweet Emma Barrett, Alphonse Picou, George Guesnon, Isidore Barbarin, Louis Keppard, Chinee Foster, Black...

Clarinet obbligato in Porter Steele's "High Society" (1901), added by Alphonse Picou Piano obbligato in the third movement of Frederik Magle's symphonic...

musicians of the time like Manuel Perez, Charlie Elgar, Ida Rose, and Alphonse Picou, among others. Octave Piron taught his sons Milford, Albert, and Armand...

Keppard organized the Olympia Orchestra around 1905. This band featured Alphonse Picou on clarinet. As a Creole band, the Olympia Orchestra would have been...

settling in New Orleans in 1930, she played in the bands of A.J. Piron, Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. Wilhelmina (Billie) Goodson was born...

genre through much of the big band era into the 1940s. American players Alphonse Picou, Larry Shields, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Sidney Bechet were all...

difficult clarinet piece "High Society", made famous by clarinetist Alphonse Picou. Charlie Parker was known to quote melodies from a variety of musical...

LaMothe) Albert Nicholas Kid Ory Manuel Perez Jimmy Palao Alcide Pavageau Alphonse Picou De De Pierce Armand J. Piron John Robichaux Omer Simeon Lorenzo Tio...

some popularity amongst the New Orleans style of clarinet players. Alphonse Picou was an adherent and can be seeing performing High Society on YouTube...

Pichon (1906–1967) – jazz pianist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter Alphonse Picou (1878–1961) – jazz clarinetist De De Pierce (1904–1973) – trumpeter...

New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Barnes studied under Lorenzo Tio Jr., Alphonse Picou, George Baquet, and Louis Nelson Delisle (also known as "Big Eye" Louis...

Frank Christian Eddie Edwards Nick LaRocca Gussie Mueller Alcide Nunez Alphonse Picou Larry Shields Henry Ragas Tony Sbarbaro Ragbaby Stephens Lee, William...

singer and actress January 14 – Henry Geehl, pianist, 79 February 4 – Alphonse Picou, jazz musician February 7 – Noah Lewis, jug band musician February 20...

cornetist. Under Keppard, the group's personnel included Joseph Petit, Alphonse Picou, Sidney Bechet, Louis Keppard and Ernest Trepagnier; under Piron, they...

worked in the bands of George Williams in the 1940s and 1950s, and with Alphonse Picou in the early 1950s. He recorded with Paul Barbarin repeatedly over the...

an American tour, Brymer improvised with local jazz stars, including Alphonse Picou. As a teacher, Brymer was professor at the Royal Academy of Music (1950–58)...

guitarist (d. 1937) October 19 Hermann Claudius, lyricist (died 1980) Alphonse Picou, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1961) November 4 – Jean Schwartz, Hungarian-born...

Haugerud, Ugonna Okegwo, and Winard Harper. 1961 in jazz, deaths of Alphonse Picou, Booker Little, Cuba Austin, Freddy Johnson, George Formby, Miff Mole...

dirges, and hymns. Among its members were John Robichaux, George Baquet, Alphonse Picou, Luis Tio (Lorenzo Tio's uncle), Lorenzo Tio Sr. (Lorenzo Tio's father)...

Uncle Gaspard, Cajun vocalist and guitarist (died 1937) October 19 – Alphonse Picou, jazz clarinettist (died 1961) October 31 – Roberta Lawson, Indigenous...

Robert Recker for the piccolo in 1901 and made famous by clarinetist Alphonse Picou. The complex countermelody was often used in auditions for brass band...