Paul Mares (June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), was an early jazz cornet & trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... Bâ™­ cornet The cornet is a brass instrument that closely resembles the trumpet. ... Trumpeter redirects to here. ... The New Orleans Rhythm Kings were one of the most influential jazz bands of the early/mid 1920s. ...

Mares was born in New Orleans. His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business. New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...

Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was "King" Joe Oliver. Joe King Oliver, (December 19, 1885 – April 8, 1938) was a bandleader and jazz musician. ...

About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares. (Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago.) Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... A London black cab (Hackney carriage. ...

Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s. The 1920s were a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...

In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans. He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur & hide business. He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. Mares's Metarie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Metairie (local pronunciations , ) is an unincorporated, census-designated place (CDP) located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was a notable jazz cornet player. ... Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 - December 29, 1967) was a popular United States orchestral leader. ...

Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called "The Chicago Bar-B-Q". In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his "New Orleans Bar-B-Q" there. The "P.M. New Orleans Bar-B-Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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 right back to the club where the N.O.R.K. had first played in Chicago. The 1935 band included the white New Orleansian Santo Pecora on trombone, the black New Orleans-born Chicagoan Omar Simeon on clarinet and the legendary Chicagoan altoist (who later gave up full-time music for the priesthood and became "Brother Matthew"), Boyce Brown.

Mares's 1936 recording session for Okeh Records show his style had not remained static; he sounds more under the influence of Henry "Red" Allen than Joe Oliver. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in 1918; from the late 1920s on was a subsidiary of Columbia Records. ... Henry Red Allen (January 7, 1906 - April 17, 1967) was an influential jazz trumpeter. ...

Paul Mares died at the age of 49 of lung cancer, according to his brother Joe, caused by "smoking too many cigarettes". Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterised by the presence of malignant tumours. ... A cigarette will burn to ash on one end. ...