Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau's Bass - New Orleans, LA - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

The New Orleans Jazz Museum is a music museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of jazz music. Through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities, and engaging musical performances, the music New Orleans made famous is explored in all its forms.

From Wikipedia: "Alcide Louis "Slow Drag" Pavageau (March 7, 1888 – January 19, 1969) was an American jazz guitarist and double-bassist. He was born in New Orleans. He started off his career as a dancer, mastering a dance called the "Slow Drag" which resulted in his nickname.

He learned the guitar as a young man from his cousin Ulysses Picou, a singer in New Orleans. Pavageau came from a musical family and was related to other famous musical families like the Tios, Picous and Pirons who were responsible for forming some of the earliest known jazz bands. He played with numerous legends of jazz including Buddy Petit, Bunk Johnson, and Herb Morand. Johnson later bragged that he taught Louis Armstrong how to play cornet by ear.

He picked up bass in 1927, when he was 39 years old, and joined George Lewis's band from 1943, and also played in Bunk Johnson's band in New York City in 1945. His tenure with Lewis included several world tours and lasted through the end of the 1950s. In 1961, while playing with the Louis Cottrell Trio, he recorded New Orleans: The Living Legends for the Riverside label. He worked extensively at Preservation Hall in the 1960s, and recorded one album under his own name for Jazz Crusade in 1965 in addition to frequent recording with Lewis." (visit link)

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