Louis Kid Shots Madison Day

Louis “Kid Shots” Madison (born February 19, 1899 in New Orleans , † September 1948 ibid) was an American jazz trumpeter ( cornet ).

Madison taught cornet lessons with Davey Jones , Joe Howard and Louis Dumaine . In his youth, he played in a street band with Louis Armstrong (where he took over the drums). He played in the Eagle Brass Band and from 1923 to 1925 in the Original Tuxedo Orchestra by Oscar Celestin . He then spent a year in the band of William Ridgley and in the Great Depression in the State-sponsored Worker’s Program Association brass band in New Orleans. In the 1940s he played in the Young Tuxedo Band and in the Eureka Brass Band . In the 1940s he had a day job at the health department and evening play at the Cadillac Club and later at Lake Pontchartrain . In 1948 he had a stroke and gave up the music.

He recorded with George Lewis and in 1945 in a band directed by Bunk Johnson .

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