Waldren Joseph
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Waldren "Frog" Joseph (September 12, 1918 – September 19, 2004) was a jazz trombone player from New Orleans, Louisiana. He played in a variety of styles over his career but was best known as a performer of traditional New Orleans jazz; a style carried on today by the Preservation Hall ensembles. His first job as a teenager was playing piano, double bass, and trombone on an excursion boat on Lake Ponchartrain, and he went on to tour with a range of musicians including Joe Robichaux, Sidney Desvigne, and Lee Allen. Joseph also recorded with R&B artists such as Big Joe Turner, Earl King, Smiley Lewis, and Dave Bartholomew. In the traditional vein, he recorded and toured with New Orleans bandleaders like Paul Barbarin, Louis Cottrell, Jr., and Papa French. Late in his life he was a member of the led by trumpeter .
Joseph was the father of seven children, two of whom went on to become accomplished jazz musicians themselves: sousaphone player Kirk Joseph and trombonist Charles Joseph.
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- 1918 births
- 2004 deaths
- Jazz musicians from New Orleans
- African-American musicians
- American jazz trombonists
- Male trombonists
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century trombonists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians