Ernest
"Doc" Paulin (June 22, 1907 – November 20, 2007) was a New
Orleans jazz brass band leader
and trumpeter.
Paulin was
born in Wallace, Louisiana,
in St. John the Baptist Parish to a Creole
French speaking family. Paulin's father played the accordion.
Edgar Peters, his uncle, was a trombonist.
Paulin relocated to nearby New Orleans in his youth. He was active on the
city's music scene since the 1920s and continued performing marching in long
parades into the 1990s. His non-Union band gave many young musicians their
start in playing professionally.
Paulin had 13
children, six of whom played music professionally, starting in their father's
band. His sons continue to have one of the city's better known brass bands, the
Paulin Brothers Band. Son Rickey Paulin, a clarinet player,
was displaced to Houston by Hurricane
Katrina in 2005.
Paulin's
band was featured in Always for Pleasure, an award-winning documentary about
New Orleans culture. Paulin recorded in the early 1960s with Emile
Barnes on Icon Records, and in 1980 his brass band made an LP
released on Folkways. He also performs on the CD by his sons'
1996 Paul Brothers Jazz Band The Tradition Continues.
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