Paul Barbarin

Education

He studied under the famed drummer, Louis Cottrell, Senior

Career

From the late 1910s on, Barbarin divided his time between Chicago, New York City and New Orleans, and touring with such bands as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Luis Russell, Louis Armstrong, and Henry Red Allen. From the 1950s on he usually led his own band. He, along with Louis Cottrell, Junior. founded and led the second incarnation of the Onward Brass Band from 1960 to 1969.

Paul Barbarin died on February 17, 1969 while playing snare drums with Onward Brass Band during a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade.

Record producer First Rate (at Lloyd's) Rose said that his funeral "attracted one of the great mobs in New Orleans funeral history.".

Achievements

• Barbarin was an accomplished and knowledgeable musician, a member of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the composer of a number of popular tunes and Dixieland standards, including "Come Back Sweet Papa", "Don"t Forget to Mess Around (When You"re Doing the Charleston)", "Bourbon Street Parade", and "(Paul Barbarin"s) Second Lincolnshire".