Ernie Joseph "Cag" Cagnolatti (April 2, 1911, Madisonville, Louisiana

Madisonville, Louisiana

Madisonville is a town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 677 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

 – April 7, 1983, New Orleans) was an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trumpeter.

Cagnolatti began on trumpet around 1929 and played with Herbert Leary from 1933 to 1942, as well as off and on with Sidney Desvigne

Sidney Desvigne

Sidney Desvigne was an American jazz trumpeter.Desvigne played in a large number of noted 1910s and 1920s-era New Orleans Jazz ensembles, including Leonard Bechet's Silver Bell Band, the Maple Leaf Orchestra, the Excelsior Brass Band, and Ed Allen's Whispering Gold Band. He and Fate Marable often...

 and Papa Celestin

Papa Celestin

Oscar "Papa" Celestin was an American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, cornetist and vocalist.-Life and career:...

. Cagnolatti was a recurring member of many of the major New Orleans brass band

Brass band

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s; he worked in the bands of George Williams

George Williams

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 in the 1940s and 1950s, and with Alphonse Picou

Alphonse Picou

Alphonse Floristan Picou was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music....

 in the early 1950s. He recorded with Paul Barbarin

Paul Barbarin

Adolphe Paul Barbarin was a New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded as one of the very best of the pre-Big Band era jazz drummers...

 repeatedly over the course of the 1950s and 1960s. He and Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson (trombonist)

Jim Robinson, also known as Big Jim Robinson was an American jazz musician, based in New Orleans, renowned for his deep, wide-toned, robust "tailgate" style of trombone playing, which enabled him to achieve a wide swoop between two notes as he moved the slide—while continually buzzing air...

 collaborated in the early 1960s, and he also recorded with Harold Dejan

Harold Dejan

Harold "Duke" Dejan 4 February 1909 - 5 July 2002) was a New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader. Dejan is best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band, including during the 1960s and 1970s when it was considered the top band in the city....

 in 1962 and with the Onward Brass Band

Onward Brass Band

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 in 1968. From 1974 to 1980 Cagnolatti was a mainstay at Preservation Hall

Preservation Hall

Preservation Hall is a noted jazz performance hall located at 726 St. Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It hosts nightly concerts featuring a rotating roster of bands. The bands of Preservation Hall typically perform jazz in the New Orleans style.Despite the fame of the...

. He suffered a stroke

Stroke

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in 1980 and did not play afterwards.