Cottrell, Louis (Albert) Jr.
Cottrell, Louis (Albert) Jr.
Cottrell, Louis (Albert) Jr. , jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist; b. New Orleans, La., March 7, 1911;d. there, March 21, 1978. He was the son of the famous drummer Louis Cottrell Sr. (b. New Orleans, La., Dec. 25, 1878; d. there, Oct. 17, 1927). Louis Jr. worked regularly with The Young Tuxedo Orch. from the mid-1920s, and also played for The Golden Rule Band, Sidney Desvigne, and William Ridgely, among others. He left New Orleans to join a band led by Don Albert, with whom he worked throughout the 1930s, then returned to New Orleans. He worked again with Sidney Desvigne in the 1940s, and became president of the local (black) musician’s union. He participated in occasional parades with Kid Howard’s Brass Band in the 1950s; also did regular work and recordings with Paul Barbarin during that period. He worked in Pete Bocage’s Creole Serenaders in the early 1960s. Primarily playing on clarinet, he was featured with his own trio at the New Orleans Jazz Fest in June 1969.
Discography
Bourbon Street Parade (1961); New Orleans: The Living Legends (1994).
—John Chilton/Lewis Porter