Paul Mares, was an American early dixieland jazz cornet & trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Mares was born in New Orleans. His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business. Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was "King" Joe Oliver. About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.

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  • Paul Mares, was an American early dixieland jazz cornet & trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Mares was born in New Orleans. His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business. Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was "King" Joe Oliver. About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares. (Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago. ) Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings (N.O.R.K. ) became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s. In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans. He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur & hide business. He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians. Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called "The Chicago Bar-B-Q". In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his "New Orleans Bar-B-Q" there. The "P.M. New Orleans Bar-B-Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in. In January 1935 Mares played trumpet on, and fronted, a recording session with a band called "Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra" - a name that referred to the Friar's Inn club where the N.O.R.K. had first played in Chicago. The 1935 band included the white New Orleanian and N.O.R.K. veteran Santo Pecora on trombone, the black New Orleanian Omar Simeon on clarinet and the legendary Chicagoan altoist (who later gave up full-time music for the priesthood and became "Brother Matthew"), Boyce Brown. Mares's last recording session for Okeh Records show his style had not remained static; he sounds more under the influence of Henry "Red" Allen than Joe Oliver. Paul Mares died at the age of 49 of lung cancer, according to his brother Joe, caused by "smoking too many cigarettes".
  • Paul Mares ist ein amerikanischer Jazz-Trompeter und Leiter der New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Mares stammte aus einer wohlhabenden französisch stämmigen Familie. Sein Vater Joseph E. Mares hatte einen Pelzhandel und spielte nebenbei Kornett in einer Militärband. Paul Mares war ein Protegé von Papa Jack Laine und spielte früh mit seinen Jugendfreunden Abbie und George Brunies und Leon Roppolo und in der Band von Tom Brown. 1919 ging er nach Chicago, wo er mit George Brunies und „Tom Brown’s Band from Dixieland“ spielte. Danach spielte er mit Brunies und Roppolo auf Schaufelraddampfern auf dem Mississippi, bevor sie 1921 ein Engagement als Band im „Friar’s Inn“ in Chicago annahmen. Unter Mares als wurden daraus die berühmten New Orleans Rhythm Kings, die großen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung des Chicago Jazz hatten. Nach der Auflösung der Band kehrte er 1924 nach New Orleans zurück. Kurzzeitig formierte er die Band mit Roppolo neu, stieg dann aber ins Familiengeschäft ein und spielte nur noch nebenbei Jazz. Das Geschäft prosperierte, und er konnte mehrere Häuser kaufen. In seinem Haus fand 1929 eine legendäre Jam Session zwischen den Musikern von Paul Whitemans Orchester mit Bix Beiderbecke und New Orleanser Jazzmusikern statt. Mares eröffnete auch ein Restaurant „The New Orleans Bar-B-Q“ und Anfang der 1930er Jahre einen Ableger Paul Mares New Orleans Barbeque in Chicago. Das Restaurant in New Orleans war ein Treffpunkt von Jazzmusikern, in dem auch Jam Sessions stattfanden, bei denen Mares gelegentlich mitspielte. 1934 nahm er nochmals mit neu aufgelegten Rhythm Kings auf und mit dem Klarinettisten Omer Simeon, Santo Pecora (Posaune) und dem Altsaxophonisten Boyce Brown (der später Mönch wurde). Im Zweiten Weltkrieg arbeitete er in einer Rüstungsfabrik. Ab 1945 leitete er erneut eine Band im Raum Chicago. 1949 starb er an Lungenkrebs.
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  • Paul Mares, was an American early dixieland jazz cornet & trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Mares was born in New Orleans. His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business. Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was "King" Joe Oliver. About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.
  • Paul Mares ist ein amerikanischer Jazz-Trompeter und Leiter der New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Mares stammte aus einer wohlhabenden französisch stämmigen Familie. Sein Vater Joseph E. Mares hatte einen Pelzhandel und spielte nebenbei Kornett in einer Militärband. Paul Mares war ein Protegé von Papa Jack Laine und spielte früh mit seinen Jugendfreunden Abbie und George Brunies und Leon Roppolo und in der Band von Tom Brown.
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