Editing Paul Mares

{{short description|American jazz cornet and trumpet player (1900-1949)}}

{{for|the Australian rugby league player|Paul Mares (rugby league)}}
[[Image:MaresHomeBell.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mares' former house, near Esplanade Avenue & Broad]]
'''Paul Mares''' (June 15, 1900 &ndash; August 18, 1949), was an American early [[dixieland]] [[jazz]] [[cornet]] and trumpet player, and leader of the [[New Orleans Rhythm Kings]].<ref name=redhotjazz>{{cite web |title=Paul Mares (1900-1949)|url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/paul-mares-1900-1949/ |website=Red Hot Jazz Archive |date=20 May 2020 |accessdate=20 May 2020 }}</ref>

Mares established himself as a respected bandleader over a group of wild and strong-willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings (N.O.R.K.) became one of the best-regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s.<ref>{{cite book | last=Berendt|first=Joachim| title=The Jazz Book | publisher=Paladin| year=1976|pages=131}}</ref>

In January 1935 Mares played trumpet on, and fronted, a recording session with a band called "Paul Mares and his Friars Society Orchestra" - a name that referred to the [[Friar's Inn]] club where the N.O.R.K. had first played in Chicago. The 1935 band included the white New Orleanian and N.O.R.K. veteran [[Santo Pecora]] on trombone, the black New Orleanian [[Omar Simeon]] on clarinet, and the Chicagoan altoist [[Boyce Brown]], as well as [[George Wettling]] on drums, [[Jess Stacy]] on piano, Pat Pattison on bass, and Marvin Saxbe on guitar.<ref>Sudhalter, Richard. ''Lost Chords''. Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 225.</ref>

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