Charles Joseph is an American
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Career
The son of trombonist
Waldren Joseph
Waldren "Frog" Joseph (September 12, 1918 – September 19, 2004) was an American jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Career
Joseph played in a variety of styles over his career but was best known as a performer of traditional New ...
, Joseph has played with the
Majestic Band and
Hurricane Brass Band, and was one of the founding members of the
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a brass band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ensemble was established in 1977, by Benny Jones and members of the Tornado Brass Band. The Dirty Dozen revolutionized the New Orleans brass band style by incorpo ...
.
[Burns 2006, p. 70, 86.]
He has also appeared on an
Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in ...
album and performed with his brother,
sousaphonist Kirk Joseph
Kirk Joseph (born 1961) is a jazz sousaphone player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of trombonist Waldren "Frog" Joseph, Kirk Joseph began playing the sousaphone while a student at Andrew Bell Middle School, and took part in his first profess ...
, in
Kirk Joseph's Backyard Groove band.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
Dirty Dozen Brass Band members
21st-century trombonists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Musicians from New Orleans
Jazz musicians from New Orleans
Musicians from Louisiana
Jazz musicians from Louisiana
Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band members
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