30K views · 730 reactions | "Sweet Emma" Barrett (March 25, 1897, New Orleans, Louisiana – January 28, 1983) | Flashbak | Facebook

Happy birthday to our Bell Gal, the one and only Sweet Emma Barrett 🎹 Here she is performing "Jelly Roll" in 1982 at the Hall with the Humphrey brothers. #FromTheVault | Preservation Hall

Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band made an appearance in the 1965 production of "Cincinnati Kid" starring Steve McQueen. Set in New Orleans, the film also featured a second line with the Eureka Brass Band. #PresHallinTheMovies From left to right: Cie Frazier (drums), Paul Crawford (trombone), Sweet Emma, Punch Miller (trumpet), George Lewis (clarinet), and Allan Jaffe (helicon). | Preservation Hall

Happy birthday to the one and only Sweet Emma Barrett – the Bell Gal – born in New Orleans on this day in 1897. Sweet Emma began performing publicly on the piano in 1910, at the age of twelve. She was self-taught, and never learned how to read music. She was an extraordinarily gifted pianist and vocalist who played wholly by ear, able to effortlessly transpose pieces on the fly. In 1923, Barrett joined Oscar “Papa” Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Orchestra, going on to perform with well-known bandlea

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