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[[Sting | Gordon Sumner]] played with the Vieux Carre Jazzmen in a yet unspecified period. The band itself existed for decades. | [[Sting | Gordon Sumner]] played with the Vieux Carre Jazzmen in a yet unspecified period. The band itself existed for decades. | ||
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| + | 'Peter Deuchar was a charismatic, striking individual. After leaving school he attended agricultural college, was articled to a chartered accountant, served in the RAF during National Service and afterwards joined the family brewery business of James Deuchar Ltd, working in Wolverhampton and Edinburgh to learn about brewing and the licensed trade of hotels and public houses. However, brewing beer did not figure in his aspirations even though a comfortable and privileged future was assured. A talented banjo player and guitarist, enthusiastically devoted to the hand-clapping, foot-stomping, syncopated music of the American deep south, New Orleans jazz, to which he would listen on his Pye ‘Black Box’ record player and play along on his banjo at every opportunity. Peter’s burning ambition was to form a group of like-minded musicians, so, along with his good friend, trumpeter Peter Gascoigne, Jack Goodwin on trombone, John Saxelby on clarinet, John Lowes on bass and Pete Drysdale on drums, he launched his band and named it after a famous old neighbourhood in New Orleans, the Vieux Carré, better known as the French Quarter.' | ||
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| + | John McLaughlin (who is originally from Yorkshire but grew-up in the North East) may have also been an occasional member of The Vieux Carre Jazzmen at some point prior to forming The Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1971: | ||
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| + | 'John McLaughlin’s first experience of being in a professional band was to be under the leadership of Peter Deucher. After, apparently, a pilgrimage to New Orleans and then a residency in Germany with the Vieux Carre Jazzmen Deuchar formed a new ensemble: Big Pete Deuchar & His Professors of Ragtime which included John McLaughlin who may have also sat in with The Vieux Carre Jazzmen.' | ||
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Revision as of 00:37, 26 May 2020
| Vieux Carre Jazzmen | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK |
| Years active: | YYYY - YYYY |
| Label(s): | unknown |
| Associated acts: | --- |
| Website: | http://www.vieuxcarrejazzmen.com/ |
| Members | |
| Sting | |
Contents
Band history
Gordon Sumner played with the Vieux Carre Jazzmen in a yet unspecified period. The band itself existed for decades.
to be edited:
'Peter Deuchar was a charismatic, striking individual. After leaving school he attended agricultural college, was articled to a chartered accountant, served in the RAF during National Service and afterwards joined the family brewery business of James Deuchar Ltd, working in Wolverhampton and Edinburgh to learn about brewing and the licensed trade of hotels and public houses. However, brewing beer did not figure in his aspirations even though a comfortable and privileged future was assured. A talented banjo player and guitarist, enthusiastically devoted to the hand-clapping, foot-stomping, syncopated music of the American deep south, New Orleans jazz, to which he would listen on his Pye ‘Black Box’ record player and play along on his banjo at every opportunity. Peter’s burning ambition was to form a group of like-minded musicians, so, along with his good friend, trumpeter Peter Gascoigne, Jack Goodwin on trombone, John Saxelby on clarinet, John Lowes on bass and Pete Drysdale on drums, he launched his band and named it after a famous old neighbourhood in New Orleans, the Vieux Carré, better known as the French Quarter.'
John McLaughlin (who is originally from Yorkshire but grew-up in the North East) may have also been an occasional member of The Vieux Carre Jazzmen at some point prior to forming The Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1971:
'John McLaughlin’s first experience of being in a professional band was to be under the leadership of Peter Deucher. After, apparently, a pilgrimage to New Orleans and then a residency in Germany with the Vieux Carre Jazzmen Deuchar formed a new ensemble: Big Pete Deuchar & His Professors of Ragtime which included John McLaughlin who may have also sat in with The Vieux Carre Jazzmen.'
Band members
- Gordon Sumner - bass
Discography
Singles
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Awards & Honors
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Quotations and Trivia
No exact concert dates with Sting are known - in the November 28, 1973 issue Courier mentions that the band plays Tuesday evenings at the Piccolo Restaurant in Gosforth
The same student newspaper mentions that Tuesday is also the day to see the Phoenix Jazzmen at the Hawthorn Inn in Benwell.
See also
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External links
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- BAND NAME at the Fan History
References
sources: Broken Music, Courier
