Paul Mares
Paul Mares (June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), 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. |
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Birth and Death Data: Born June 15, 1900 (New Orleans), Died August 18, 1949 (Chicago)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1923 - 1941
Roles Represented in DAHR: songwriter, composer, cornet
Notes: Also played cornet.
See Also: New Orleans Rhythm Kings
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 52 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-27609 | 10-in. | 2/20/1923 | Farewell blues | Ross Gorman ; Virginians | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | B-28718 | 10-in. | 10/4/1923 | Tin roof blues | The Original Memphis Five | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | B-32125 | 10-in. | 3/26/1925 | She's cryin' for me | New Orleans Rhythm Kings | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, cornet | |
Victor | B-32126 | 10-in. | 3/26/1925 | Everybody loves somebody blues (but nobody loves me) | New Orleans Rhythm Kings | Jazz/dance band | composer, instrumentalist, cornet | |
Victor | BVE-33379 | 10-in. | 9/14/1925 | Milenberg joys | Busse's Buzzards | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BVE-43187 | 10-in. | 3/28/1928 | Farewell blues | Pennsylvanians ; Fred Waring | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo and chorus | songwriter | |
Victor | BSHQ-73181 | 10-in. | 8/9/1932 | Milenberg joys | Rhythm Boys | Vocal and instrumental quartet | composer | |
Victor | BS-74852 | 10-in. | 12/13/1932 | Milenberg joys | Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BS-94192 | 10-in. | 9/7/1935 | Farewell blues | Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | PBS-019411 | 10-in. | 7/7/1938 | Milenberg joys | Freddy Martin Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-024426 | 10-in. | 8/1/1938 | Milenberg joys | Larry Clinton Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BS-028175 | 10-in. | 10/31/1938 | Tin roof blues | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BS-030308 | 10-in. | 11/23/1938 | Farewell blues | Benny Goodman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-030361 | 10-in. | 12/6/1938 | Milenberg joys | Don Redman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BS-031805 | 10-in. | 1/19/1939 | Milenberg joys | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BS-031806 | 10-in. | 1/19/1939 | Milenberg joys | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | BS-037732 | 10-in. | 6/19/1939 | Farewell blues | Wingy Manone Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-038175 | 10-in. | 8/1/1939 | Farewell blues | Glenn Miller Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Victor | BS-067549 | 10-in. | 8/11/1941 | Farewell blues | Dixieland Octet of NBC's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street ; Dr. Gino Hamilton ; Henry Levine | Jazz/dance band, with speaker | songwriter | |
Columbia | 80887 | 10-in. | 3/6/1923 | Farewell blues | Georgians | Jazz/dance band | songwriter | |
Columbia | W140709 | 10-in. | 6/22/1925 | Milenberg joys | Ted Lewis and his Band | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Columbia | W140710 | 10-in. | 6/22/1925 | Tin roof blues | Ted Lewis and his Band | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Columbia | 142317 | 10-in. | 6/18/1926 | Farewell blues | Gus Mulcay | Harmonica solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | W142547 | 10-in. | 8/20/1926 | Farewell blues | Virgina Childs | Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with piano | songwriter | |
Columbia | W142793 | 10-in. | 10/18/1926 | Farewell blues | Sol Hoopii's Novelty Trio | Instrumental trio (Hawaiian) | songwriter |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Mares, Paul," accessed June 9, 2023, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/109706.
Mares, Paul. (2023). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved June 9, 2023, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/109706.
"Mares, Paul." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2023. Web. 9 June 2023.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Mares, Paul, 1900-1949 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93024839
Wikidata: Paul Mares - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2061143
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/39562568
MusicBrainz: Paul Mares - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/78c6766a-9bdb-441b-9d5d-279948545f43
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