Emmett Hardy
Jazz, Musical Artist
1903 – 1925
Who was Emmett Hardy?
Emmett Louis Hardy was an early jazz cornet player and one of the best-regarded New Orleans musicians of his generation.
Emmett Louis Hardy was born in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna, Louisiana, and lived much of his life in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of New Orleans. Hardy was a child prodigy, described as already playing marvelously in his early teens. Some New Orleans musicians remembered as a musical highlight of their lives a 1919 cutting contest where, after long and intense struggle, Hardy succeeded in outplaying Louis Armstrong.
Emmett Hardy was in the original incarnation of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings under the direction of Bee Palmer. For a time during its Friar's Inn residency the NORK used a two-cornet format -- Paul Mares, leader and first cornet, and Emmett Hardy as second.
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- Born
- Jun 12, 1903
Louisiana - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Jun 16, 1925
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on July 23, 2013
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