For the architect, see Don Albert & Partners

Don Albert & Partners

Don Albert & Partners is an architectural firm founded by Don Albert, born 22 February 1971 in Port Shepstone, South Africa.- Background :...

.

Albert Dominique, better known by his stage name

Stage name

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 Don Albert (August 5, 1908, New Orleans - January 1980, San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

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) was an American jazz

Jazz

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 trumpeter and bandleader.

Albert's uncle was Natty Dominique

Natty Dominique

Anatie "Natty" Dominique was a jazz trumpeter born in New Orleans, Louisiana most notable for his long body of work with Johnny Dodds.-Biography:...

, and he was also a relative of Barney Bigard

Barney Bigard

Albany Leon Bigard, aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet....

. He got his start playing in parade brass band

Brass band

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s in New Orleans at the beginning of the 1920s. He toured with the territory band

Territory band

Territory bands were dance bands that crisscrossed specific regions of the United States from the 1920s through the 1960s. Beginning in the 1920s, the bands typically had 8 to 12 musicians. These bands typically played one-nighters, 6 or 7 nights a week at venues like VFW halls, Elks Lodges,...

 of Alphonse Trent

Alphonse Trent

Alphonse "Alphonso" Trent was an American jazz pianist and territory band leader.Trent played piano since childhood and worked in local bands in Arkansas through his youth. He led his first band in the mid-1920s, possibly as early as 1923...

 through the Southwest United States in 1925, then played with Troy Floyd at the Shadowland Ballroom in San Antonio from 1926 to 1929.

Albert led his own territory bands out of Texas in the 1930s and 1940s, with sidemen that included Alvin Alcorn

Alvin Alcorn

Alvin Alcorn was an American New Orleans jazz trumpeter.Alcorn was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He learned music from his brother, though not much is known about his youth. He played freelance in New Orleans in the late 1920s and early 1930s; he appears with Armand J. Piron's Sunny South...

, Louis Cottrell, Jr.

Louis Cottrell, Jr.

Louis Albert Cottrell, Jr. was a Louisiana Creole jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist. He was the son of the influential drummer Louis Cottrell, Sr., and grandfather of New Orleans jazz drummer Louis Cottrell...

, and Herb Hall

Herb Hall

Herbert "Herb" Hall was an American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist.Herb was the brother of Edmond Hall and the son of clarinetist Edward Hall. He began on banjo with the Niles Jazz Band , then settled on reeds. In 1926 he played with Kid Augustin Victor in Baton Rouge, and moved to New...

. After 1932 he acted more in a manager's capacity than as a performer.His bands played in Mexico

Mexico

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, Canada

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, and New York City

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 in 1937 and won rave reviews from newspapers, but the band only recorded eight sides for Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records

Vocalion Records is a record label active for many years in the United States and in the United Kingdom.-History:Vocalion was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Piano Company of New York City, which introduced a retail line of phonographs at the same time. The name was derived from one of their...

. He disbanded this group around 1939 due to economic conditions, and found work in civil service

Civil service

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 and managing a nightclub

Nightclub

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 in San Antonio in the early and mid-1940s; his club was shut down in 1948 by local authorities. He led a group at the Palace Theater in New York in 1949.

In the 1950s he returned to active performance, playing in small groups in the 1950s through the 1970s. He played with Buddy Tate in New York in 1966 and at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in 1969.