Buddie Petit

Cornet, Musical Artist

1890 – 1931

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Who was Buddie Petit?

Buddie Petit or Buddy Petit was a highly regarded early jazz cornetist.

His early life is somewhat mysterious, with dates of his birth given in various sources ranging from 1887 to 1897; if the later date is correct he was evidently a prodigy, regarded as one of the best in New Orleans, Louisiana, in his early teens. He was said to have been born in White Castle, Louisiana.

His given name was Joseph Crawford, but he was adopted by the trombonist Joseph Petit, whose name he took.

By the early 1910s, he was one of the top horn players in the new style of music not yet generally known as "jazz". He took Freddie Keppard's place in the Eagle Band when Keppard left town.

Buddie Petit was known as a hard-drinking, fun-loving man who played cornet with great virtuosity and inventiveness. He was briefly lured to Los Angeles, California, by Jelly Roll Morton and Bill Johnson in 1917, but objected to being told to dress and behave differently than he was accustomed to back home, and promptly returned to New Orleans. He spent the rest of his career in the area around greater New Orleans and the towns north of Lake Pontchartrain like Mandeville, Louisiana, not venturing further from home than Baton Rouge and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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Born
1890
White Castle
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Jul 4, 1931

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on July 23, 2013

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