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Jimmie Noone (or Jimmy Noone; April 23 1895 in Cut Off, Louisiana
Cut Off, Louisiana

Cut Off is a census-designated place on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The population was 5,635 at the 2000 United States Census....
 – April 19 1944 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
) was an American jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 clarinetist.

e started playing guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 in his home town; at the age of 15, he switched to the clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 and moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio
Lorenzo Tio

Lorenzo Tio Jr. was a master clarinetist from New Orleans, as were his father Lorenzo Tio Sr. and uncle Louis "Papa" Tio . Their method of playing the instrument was seminal in the development of the jazz solo....
 and with the young Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophone, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort....
, who was only 13 at the time. By 1912, he was playing professionally with Freddie Keppard
Freddie Keppard

Freddie Keppard was an early jazz cornetist.Keppard was born in the Louisiana Creole people of Color community of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana....
 in Storyville
Storyville

Storyville was the prostitution district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 through 1917.Locals usually simply referred to the area as The District....
, and played with Buddy Petit, Kid Ory
Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
, Papa Celestin
Papa Celestin

Oscar "Papa" Celestin was an United States jazz bandleader, trumpeter, cornetist and vocalist....
, the Eagle Band, and the Young Olympia Band, before joining the Original Creole Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois in 1917.






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Jimmie Noone (or Jimmy Noone; April 23 1895 in Cut Off, Louisiana
Cut Off, Louisiana

Cut Off is a census-designated place on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The population was 5,635 at the 2000 United States Census....
 – April 19 1944 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
) was an American jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 clarinetist.

Background

Noone started playing guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
 in his home town; at the age of 15, he switched to the clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 and moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio
Lorenzo Tio

Lorenzo Tio Jr. was a master clarinetist from New Orleans, as were his father Lorenzo Tio Sr. and uncle Louis "Papa" Tio . Their method of playing the instrument was seminal in the development of the jazz solo....
 and with the young Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophone, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort....
, who was only 13 at the time. By 1912, he was playing professionally with Freddie Keppard
Freddie Keppard

Freddie Keppard was an early jazz cornetist.Keppard was born in the Louisiana Creole people of Color community of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana....
 in Storyville
Storyville

Storyville was the prostitution district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 through 1917.Locals usually simply referred to the area as The District....
, and played with Buddy Petit, Kid Ory
Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
, Papa Celestin
Papa Celestin

Oscar "Papa" Celestin was an United States jazz bandleader, trumpeter, cornetist and vocalist....
, the Eagle Band, and the Young Olympia Band, before joining the Original Creole Orchestra in Chicago, Illinois in 1917. The following year, he joined King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, then in 1920 joined Keppard in Doc Cook
Doc Cook

Charles L. Cooke was an American jazz bandleader who performed and recorded under the stage name Doc Cook.Cook, unlike many early jazz musicians who used monikers denoting advanced degrees, held a Ph.D, from the Chicago College of Music....
's band which he would remain with for six years, and make early recordings with. In 1926, he started leading the band at Chicago's Apex Club. This band, Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, was notable for its unusual instrumentation -- a front line consisting of just Noone and alto saxophonist/clarinetist Joe Poston, who had worked with Noone in Doc Cook's band. The influential Pittsburgh-born pianist Earl Hines
Earl Hines

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz"....
 was also in the band for a time.

In 1935, Noone moved New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 to start a band and a (short lived) club with Wellman Braud
Wellman Braud

Wellman Braud was a United States jazz string bass player. He was a Creole. His family sometimes spelled their last name "Breaux", pronounced "Bro"....
. He then returned to Chicago where he played at various clubs until 1943, when he moved to Los Angeles, California. Shortly after he joined Kid Ory
Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombone and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana....
's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by Orson Welles. Noone played a few broadcasts with the band, but died suddenly of a heart attack. The Ory band, with New Orleans-born clarinetist Wade Whaley, played a blues (titled "Blues for Jimmie" by Welles) in his honor on the radio, and the number eventually became a regular feature for the Ory band.

Legacy

Noone is generally regarded as one of the greatest of the second generation of jazz clarinetists, along with Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong....
 and Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet was an American jazz saxophone, clarinetist, and composer.He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort....
. Noone's playing is not as blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
-tinged as Dodds nor as flamboyant as Bechet, but is perhaps more lyrical and sophisticated, and certainly makes more use of "sweet" flavoring. Noone was an important influence on later clarinetists such as Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an United States jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of his time....
, Irving Fazola
Irving Fazola

Irving Fazola was an United States jazz clarinetist.Fazola or Faz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana as Irving Henry Prestopnik. He got the nickname Fazola from his childhood skill at Solfege ....
 and Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
.

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