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

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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 {{US-jazz-trombonist-stub