Editing Paul Barbarin (section)

==Career==
Barbarin grew up in New Orleans in a family of musicians, including his father [[Isidore Barbarin|Isidore]], three of his brothers (including [[Louis Barbarin|Louis]]), and his nephew ([[Danny Barker]]).<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> He was a member of the Silver Leaf Orchestra and the Young Olympia Band. He moved to Chicago in 1917 and worked with [[Freddie Keppard]] and [[Jimmie Noone]]. From 1925–1927, he was a member of [[King Oliver]]'s band.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/>

During the following year, he moved to New York City and played in [[Luis Russell]]'s band for about four years. He left Russell and worked as a freelance musician, but he returned to Russell's band when it supported [[Louis Armstrong]].<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> For a brief time beginning in 1942, he worked for [[Red Allen]]'s sextet, with [[Sidney Bechet]] in 1944 and [[Art Hodes]] in 1953. In 1955, he founded the [[Onward Brass Band]] in New Orleans.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> He spent the rest of his life as the leader of that band.<ref name="Yanow">{{cite web|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|title=Paul Barbarin|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-barbarin-mn0000014318/biography|website=AllMusic|access-date=July 8, 2017}}</ref>

Barbarin died on February 17, 1969, while playing snare drums during a [[Mardi Gras]] parade.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> Record producer Al Rose said that his funeral "attracted one of the great mobs in New Orleans funeral history."<ref name = "rose">{{cite book|last = Rose |first = Al |title = I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great Jazzmen | location = Baton Rouge and London |publisher = LSU Press | pages = 218–220 | date = 1987 |isbn = 0-8071-2571-7 }}</ref>