Wallace Davenport & His New Orleans Band Live in New Orleans - 1977 (audio only)

Wallace Davenport & His New Orleans Band Live at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Riverboat SS President, New Orleans, April 17th, 1977. -Setlist: 01. Tin Roof Blues 02. Announcer 03. Down By The Riverside 04. Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home Wallace Foster Davenport (30 June 1925 – 18 March 2004) was an American jazz trumpeter. Davenport has been one of the few traditional jazz musicians of the 1930s who later branched out into swing and bop styles, as well as backing gospel and R&B vocalists during an extensive career in eight different decades. Davenport was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started on trumpet at age 13 with The Young Tuxedo Brass Band. He played with Papa Celestin in 1941 before leaving New Orleans to serve in the U. S. Navy. Davenport returned there after World War II, making an easy transition to swing and bop with various bands. He recorded with Roy Brown in 1947. During the 1950s he toured the US and Europe playing with Lionel H