George Lewis  —  clarinet

George Lewis (born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon; July 13, 1900 – December 31, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his highest profile in the later decades of his life. Lewis was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1900 and lived at 3327 De Armas Street in the Algiers section of New Orleans. Through his mother, Alice Zeno, his maternal great-great-grandmother was a Senegalese slave who was brought to Louisiana around 1803. Zeno's family retained some knowledge of Senegalese language and customs until Alice's generation. George married Emma Zeno in 1918 in New Orleans, they had four children, Mildred Zeno-Major; Joseph Zeno; William (Bill) Zeno; and George (Baby George). During the 1920s, he founded the New Orleans Stompers. In the decade he also worked with Chris Kelly, Buddy Petit, Kid Rena, and was a member of the Eureka Brass Band and the Olympia Orchestra. In the 1930s, he played with Bunk Johnson, De De Pierce, and Billie Pierce. He recorded with Johnson in the early 1940s and with Kid Shots Madison.

Source: Wikipedia, “George Lewis”

Willie Humphrey  —  clarinet

Willie James Humphrey (December 29, 1900 – June 7, 1994) was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Willie Humphrey was born in a musical family, the son of prominent local clarinetist and music teacher Willie Eli Humphrey; his brothers Earl Humphrey and Percy Humphrey also became well known professional musicians. After establishing himself with such New Orleans bands as the Excelsior and George McCullum's band, Humphrey traveled up north, playing with such other New Orleans musicians as Lawrence Duhé, and King Oliver in Chicago (Photos show Humphrey with Duhé's band playing in the stands for the 1919 World Series).  In Saint Louis, Missouri in the 1920s he made his first recordings. Back in New Orleans, he played for many years with the Eureka and Young Tuxedo Brass bands, the bands of Paul Barbarin and Sweet Emma Barrett, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Humphrey's clarinet playing remained vigorous and continued to grow more inventive in his old age. He died at his home in New Orleans on June 7, 1994. Best of Preservation Hall Jazz Band (recordings 1976–1988), Columbia, 1989 New Orleans Traditional Legends, vol.

Source: Wikipedia, “Willie Humphrey”

Albert Burbank  —  clarinet

Albert Burbank (March 25, 1902 – August 15, 1976) was an American, New Orleans–based clarinetist. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, Burbank was taught clarinet by Lorenzo Tio, one of that city's most famous clarinet players. He stayed in the New Orleans area throughout the 1920s, playing wherever his services were needed. During the 1930s, he worked with Kid Milton's band but was drafted into the US Navy during World War II. Upon demobilization, he worked internationally with the bands of Paul Barbarin and Kid Ory, later returning to New Orleans where he played with several of the well-known jazz and brass bands in the city. He was regularly seen at Preservation Hall and toured Australia with a band made up of Preservation Hall musicians. In 1975, he suffered a stroke but continued playing until his death on August 15, 1976. Recordings of broadcast performances he made with Kid Ory's band at San Francisco's Hangover Club, have been issued on the Danish Storyville label, and some with trombonist Bill Matthews appear on Southland.

Source: Wikipedia, “Albert Burbank”

Raymond Burke  —  clarinet

Raymond Burke (né Barrois; 6 June 1904 – 21 March 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist. Raymond Burke was born Raymond Barrois on June 6, 1904, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He gave few interviews and believed the life of a musician had little to do with his music. He was polite, albeit eccentric. He had wavy hair, a thin mustache, and dressed conservatively. He spoke with a thick New Orleans accent and used colorful regional vocabulary, which some found confusing. He did not drink, smoke, or gamble. He is portrayed as unpretentious. Burke rarely left the city except for out-of-town gigs or tours with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band later in life. His friend and jazz enthusiast Al Rose said Burke spent no more than ten weeks outside of New Orleans. Burke was the nephew of Jules Cassard, a jazz trombonist who played with the Reliance Brass Band, and the cousin of Dixieland musician Harold Peterson. Burke said that his first instrument was a flute he carved from a fishing pole. He then played the tin whistle, kazoo, and clarinet.

Source: Wikipedia, “Raymond Burke”

Manny Crusto  —  clarinet

Emanuel 'Manny' Crusto (1908-1994) was a New Orleans clarinetist and saxophonist who worked in the city's dance bands and jazz ensembles from the 1920s onward, including work associated with Papa Celestin's circle of musicians, and later played clarinet at Preservation Hall. Note: public documentation is sparse.

Source: Standard New Orleans jazz reference sources (limited online documentation)

Ralph H. Johnson  —  clarinet

Ralph H. Johnson played clarinet with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Very little biographical information about him is publicly documented; he is listed among the band's past members in the band's official history. Note: not to be confused with the U.S. Marine of the same name.

Source: Wikipedia (Preservation Hall Jazz Band article)

Dr. Michael White  —  clarinet

Michael White (born November 29, 1954) is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Jazz critic Scott Yanow said in a review that White "displays the feel and spirit of the best New Orleans clarinetists". White was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised Catholic by a father who was a Knight of Peter Claver. He attended a number of Black Catholic schools in the city, including Saint Francis de Sales, Holy Ghost, and St Joan of Arc. While at the latter school, he studied clarinet and played in his first parade. He graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana in 1976, and earned both a master's and doctorate in Spanish from Tulane University. White is a classically trained musician who began his jazz musical career as a teenager playing for Doc Paulin's Brass Band in New Orleans. He was a member of an incarnation of the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band, established by banjoist Danny Barker. He was discovered by Kid Sheik Colar, who heard him performing in Jackson Square in the French Quarter. White began working regularly with Colar.

Jim Robinson  —  trombone

Big Jim Robinson (born Nathan; December 25, 1890 – May 4, 1976)  was an American jazz musician, based in New Orleans, renowned for his deep, wide-toned, robust "tailgate" style of trombone playing, using the slide to achieve a wide swoop between two notes ("glissando") and rhythmic effects. Born Nathan Robinson in Deer Range, a small settlement on the west bank of lower Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Robinson studied music under James Brown Humphrey. Robinson arrived in New Orleans looking for work shortly before the 1915 New Orleans hurricane, which wiped out his home town of Deer Range, and prompted Robinson to settle in the city. In his youth, he got the nickname "Jim Crow" because of his facial features, which resembled a Native American. He was playing semi-professionally in his twenties, from World War I on. In the 1920s, he made his first recordings as a member of the Sam Morgan Jazz Band. He gained greater fame with the resurgence of interest in early New Orleans jazz starting in the 1940s as a regular member of the bands of Bunk Johnson and George Lewis.

Source: Wikipedia, “Jim Robinson”

Louis Nelson  —  trombone

Louis Hall Nelson (September 17, 1902 – April 5, 1990) was an American jazz trombonist. Nelson was born on September 17, 1902, at 1419-21 Touro Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. His father, Dr. George Harry Nelson, was a medical doctor. Dr. Nelson helped organize the 9th Louisiana Volunteers and served in the Spanish–American War. He was commissioned as first lieutenant. During the war he served in Cuba and also stormed San Juan Hill. His mother, Anna Hattie Adams Nelson, was a teacher and pianist from Springfield, Massachusetts. She was a descendant of runaway slaves from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She was a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music. His mother moved to Louisiana to teach and this is where she met her husband. They had three children: Mary Nelson Welch, George Harry Nelson Jr., and Louis Hall Nelson. Both parents and his sister played the piano and his brother played the saxophone.

Source: Wikipedia, “Louis Nelson”

Frank Demond  —  trombone, banjo

Frank Demond (1933 - November 21, 2024) was a trombonist and banjo player who was, for a time, the only member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band not from New Orleans. Born in Los Angeles, he fell in love with New Orleans jazz after hearing Kid Ory in the 1940s and sought out New Orleans musicians then living in Southern California - Johnny St. Cyr, Alton Purnell, and George Lewis all visited the Demond family home to jam. He joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the early 1970s, taking over the trombone chair after the death of Jim Robinson, and toured with the band for decades. He performed at the Hall's 50th Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall in 2012. He died at age 91.

Source: The Syncopated Times, 'Frank Demond' (The Final Chorus, January 2025)

Paul Crawford  —  trombone, baritone horn

Paul Crawford (1925 - 1996) was an American jazz musician, music arranger, and music historian. He specialized in Dixieland jazz. Crawford was born in Atmore, Alabama, to parents who were a Baptist minister and a music teacher. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was stationed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Crawford graduated from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, USA, where he studied trombone in a classical style. He studied under trombonist and teacher Emory Remington. Crawford also pursued for a time graduate studies at the University of Alabama. He then moved to New Orleans in 1951, at which time he became a specialist in the Dixieland style of Jazz. Crawford initially took up residence in the French Quarter of New Orleans where he became acquainted with people in the local arts and music scene. These included jazz historian Dick Allen and artist Johnny Donnels. He also started performing at the New Orleans Jazz Club.

Source: Wikipedia, “Paul Crawford”

Lucien Barbarin  —  trombone

Lucien Barbarin (July 17, 1956 – January 30, 2020) was an American trombone player. Barbarin toured internationally with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and with Harry Connick Jr. He made his debut at the age of six, playing drums in the Onward Brass Band, with his great-uncle Paul Barbarin. In New Orleans, Barbarin performed locally. After Hurricane Katrina severely damaged his home in 2005, he said: "I'm not running from New Orleans. [...] I'm going to stay because I was born and raised here and I'm going to pass away here." He died from prostate cancer on January 30, 2020, at the age of 63. Connick’s recording of "How Great Thou Art" from the CD Alone with My Faith is dedicated to him.

Source: Wikipedia, “Lucien Barbarin”

Maynard Chatters  —  trombone

Maynard Chatters is a New Orleans trombonist and music educator who played trombone with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the 2000s, including during the post-Katrina era. He is also known as a longtime band educator in New Orleans and the father of trumpeter Mark Chatters. Note: public documentation is sparse.

Source: Wikipedia (Preservation Hall Jazz Band article); limited online documentation

Ronell Johnson  —  trombone, sousaphone, vocals

Ronell Johnson (1976 - June 14, 2026) was a trombonist, vocalist, sousaphonist, and pianist from New Orleans, a member of the musical Johnson family that includes his cousin, fellow Preservation Hall trombonist Freddie Lonzo. A graduate of St. Augustine High School's famed music program, he played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band as well as numerous New Orleans brass bands and gospel ensembles, and was known as one of the most joyful and versatile presences in New Orleans music. Preservation Hall remembered him as 'a beacon' whose 'love for music and community reverberated everywhere he went.' He died at age 49, reportedly after suffering a heart attack earlier in the year.

Source: Live For Live Music, 'Ronell Johnson, Preservation Hall Jazz Band Trombonist, Dies At 49' (June 2026)

Jeffery Miller  —  trombone

Jeffery Oliver Miller (born February 9, 1996) is an American trombonist, vocalist, composer, arranger and bandleader primarily known for his work in jazz and pop music. He was worked with Delfeayo Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and John Legend, among others. Miller was born and raised in the Algiers neighborhood (15th Ward) of New Orleans, where he was exposed to jazz culture and history. He is the great-great grandnephew of Papa John Joseph, a New Orleans bass player who worked with Buddy Bolden. Joseph died during a performance of "When the Saints Go Marching In" with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Miller sang at home and church from an early age. Although initially drawn to the drumset, Miller began to study the trombone around age ten or eleven, inspired by his middle school band director Keith Hart. He progressed quickly and impressed professional trombonist Terrance Taplin, who encouraged Delfeayo Marsalis to audition Miller for his Uptown Jazz Orchestra.

Source: Wikipedia, “Jeffery Miller”

Sweet Emma Barrett  —  piano, vocals

"Sweet Emma" Barrett (March 25, 1897 – January 28, 1983) was an American self-taught jazz pianist and singer who worked with the Original Tuxedo Orchestra between 1923 and 1936, first under Papa Celestin, then William Ridgely. She also worked with Armand Piron, John Robichaux, Sidney Desvigne and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Born March 25, 1897, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father was Capt. William B. Barrett, who she said fought for the North in the Civil War. At age seven, she began to play the piano. In the early 1920s, Barrett joined Oscar Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra. In 1928, when the Celestin's band split, she began intermittently playing music with Bebe Ridgeley's Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, which continued for the next 10 years. In 1947, she accepted a steady job at Happy Landing, a local club in Pecaniere, Louisiana, but it was her recording debut in 1961, with her own album in the Riverside Records New Orleans: The Living Legends series, that brought her recognition.

Source: Wikipedia, “Sweet Emma Barrett”

Billie Pierce  —  piano, vocals

Wilhelmina Madison Goodson (June 8, 1907 – September 29, 1974), known professionally as Billie Pierce, was an American jazz pianist and singer, who performed and recorded with her husband De De Pierce. Her style has been described as a "potent mixture of barrelhouse, boogie-woogie, and ragtime". After settling in New Orleans in 1930, she played in the bands of A.J. Piron, Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. Wilhelmina (Billie) Goodson was born on June 8, 1907, in her mother's home town of Marianna, Florida, and grew up in Pensacola, Florida. She was one of six piano-playing sisters (including Ida Goodson and Sadie Goodson) whose father, Madison H. Goodson, and mother, Sarah Jenkins Goodson, also played the piano. There was a seventh daughter, Maggie, who died young. Billie was the second youngest of the girls; the order of the sisters from oldest to youngest went Mabel (b. 1899), Della (1901), Sadie (1903), Edna (1904), Billie (1907), and Ida (1909). Goodson was never formally trained to read music. Both of her parents musicians, they played hymns and sang in the choir at the Baptist church where Madison Goodson was a Deacon.

Source: Wikipedia, “Billie Pierce”

James “Sing” Miller  —  piano, vocals

James Edward "Sing" Miller (June 17, 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana – May 18, 1990) was an American jazz pianist and a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Miller started his career as a singer with the Harmonizing Browns Quartet. His main instrument was banjo until late in the 1920s, when he moved to piano. He worked as a freelance musician with the Percy Humphrey band during the 1930s. After serving in the military during World War II, he was in a band led by drummer Earl Foster from 1945 to 1961. He became a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans in the 1960s. He played in that band with Polo Barnes, Kid Sheik, Jim Robinson, and Kid Thomas Valentine. His rare performances as a solo act included 1979 and 1981 when he went on tour in Europe. He recorded one album for Dixie Records (1972) and one for Smoky Mary in 1978.

Source: Wikipedia, “Sing Miller”

Jeanette Kimball  —  piano

Jeanette Kimball (18 December 1906 – 28 March 2001), née Jeanette Salvant, was a classically trained American jazz pianist who played in jazz bands for more than 70 years, mostly in New Orleans. She received the Black Men of Labor Jazz Legacy Award in 1998. Born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, Kimball came from a family with French Creole roots and was the niece of blues pianist Isadore "Tuts" Washington. At seven, she began playing the piano; as a teenager, she performed as a professional musician with classical string formations, then on the field of jazz. She played in the course of her 70-year-long career in traditional jazz bands, first in 1926 in a "Society" dance band, Papa Celestin's Original Tuxedo Orchestra, with whom she went on tour in the southern United States. In 1929, she married the banjo- and guitar player Narvin Kimball, who also belonged to Papa Celestin's band. In 1935 she left the band to raise their children. After her divorce, she used the name Kimball further and started her career anew in the mid-1940s. Among other things, she worked with Buddy Charles, Herb Leary and Sidney Desvigne.

Source: Wikipedia, “Jeanette Kimball”

Joe Robichaux  —  piano

Joseph Robichaux (March 8, 1900 – January 17, 1965) was an American jazz pianist. He was the nephew of John Robichaux. Robichaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, and played piano from a young age and studied at New Orleans University. After working in the O.J. Beatty Carnival, he played with Tig Chambers briefly in 1918. He then returned to New Orleans and played with Oscar Celestin, Earl Humphrey, Lee Collins, and The Black Eagles (1922–23). He arranged for the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight in 1929 and also recorded with them; he also accompanied Christina Gray on record that year. In 1931, he formed his own ensemble, which featured Eugene Ware on trumpet, Alfred Guichard on clarinet and alto saxophone, Gene Porter on tenor sax, and Ward Crosby on drums. They journeyed to New York City to record for Vocalion in August 1933, laying down 22 mostly stomping, uptempo sides and two alternate takes in a marathon five day recording schedule, which included Rene Hall on tenor banjo.

Source: Wikipedia, “Joe Robichaux”

Lester Santiago  —  piano

Lester Santiago (1909-1965) was a New Orleans pianist from a notable musical family - his brother Burnell Santiago was renowned as the 'King of Boogie.' Lester worked in New Orleans dance and jazz bands from the 1930s onward and was among the pianists who played Preservation Hall in its earliest years in the 1960s, appearing on early Preservation Hall-era recordings before his death in 1965. Note: public documentation is sparse; dates reflect standard jazz reference sources.

Source: Standard New Orleans jazz reference sources (limited online documentation)

Lars Edegran  —  piano

Lars Ivar Edegran (born 1944) is a Dixieland jazz musician and bandleader from Sweden. He most often plays piano, guitar, or banjo but has also played mandolin, clarinet, and saxophone. Edegran was born in Stockholm, Sweden and played in New Orleans style groups in Sweden before moving to New Orleans in 1966. He played with many older and younger New Orleans musicians. Edegran founded and is the leader of the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra. He has toured and recorded extensively.

Source: Wikipedia, “Lars Edegran”

Mari Watanabe  —  piano

Mari Watanabe (died 2020) was a Japanese-born pianist who became a fixture of the New Orleans traditional jazz scene after relocating to the city. She performed with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Lars Edegran's ensembles, and many other traditional jazz groups, admired for her swinging, deeply idiomatic New Orleans piano style. Her death in 2020 was mourned widely across the New Orleans music community. Note: public documentation on her life is limited; details here are brief by necessity.

Source: New Orleans jazz community records; limited online documentation

Rickie Monie  —  piano

Rickie Monie (born 1952) was born and raised in New Orleans' Ninth Ward to jazz-loving church musicians and was immersed early in the recordings of great jazz and gospel pianists like Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Teddy Wilson. After majoring in woodwind instruments at Dillard University, he returned to the piano and worked in every style of music. In 1982 he got his first call from Preservation Hall - to substitute for the legendary resident pianist Sweet Emma Barrett after she suffered a stroke - and stayed on for decades, delighting audiences around the world. In 2019 he received the Preservation Hall Foundation's Legacy Award honoring elder New Orleans musicians.

Source: The Syncopated Times, 'Preservation Hall Legacy Awards' (September 2019)

Narvin Kimball  —  banjo, vocals

Narvin Kimball (March 2, 1909 - March 17, 2006) was a jazz musician who played 4-string banjo and string bass and was also known for his fine singing voice. The left-handed virtuoso banjo player was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of well-regarded string bass player Henry Kimball. He was playing music professionally by the mid-1920s with such groups as the bands of Fate Marable and Papa Celestin. He married a fellow member of Celestin's Tuxedo Jazz Band, pianist Jeanette Kimball (née Salvant). In the 1930s during the Great Depression Kimball switched to string bass to play in swing bands such as Sidney Desvigne's, but music did not provide enough money; he got a day job as a mailman. He continued playing music in the evening, leading his band called "Narvin Kimball's Gentlemen of Jazz". After World War II he formed a singing group called "The Four Tones" with Fred Minor, Alvin Alcorn, and Louis Barbarin that enjoyed some local success. Around 1960 with the revival of interest in traditional jazz, Kimball was able to return to playing the banjo professionally again.

Source: Wikipedia, “Narvin Kimball”

Emanuel Sayles  —  banjo, guitar

Emanuel Sayles (January 31, 1907 – October 5, 1986) was an American jazz banjoist chiefly active in the New Orleans jazz scene. Sayles was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana and played violin and viola as a child, then taught himself banjo and guitar. He was raised Catholic. He went to high school in Pensacola, Florida, then relocated to New Orleans and played with William Ridgely's Tuxedo Orchestra. Following this he worked with Fate Marable, Armand Piron, and Sidney Desvigne on riverboats up and down the Mississippi River. In 1929 he participated in recordings with the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight. Sayles moved to Chicago in 1933, where he led his own group and worked often as an accompanist on blues and jazz recordings with Roosevelt Sykes and others. He returned to New Orleans in 1949, playing with George Lewis (with whom he toured Japan in 1963–64) and Sweet Emma Barrett. He played with Punch Miller in Cleveland in 1960, then played again in Chicago in the house band at the Jazz, Ltd. club from 1965 to 1967.

Source: Wikipedia, “Emanuel Sayles”

Carl LeBlanc  —  banjo, guitar

Carl LeBlanc (born May 26, 1955) is an American guitarist and four-string banjo player. LeBlanc is most striking for his work in both avant garde jazz and traditional jazz—being the only musician to work with famed afrofuturist keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra and Preservation Hall. LeBlanc has recorded seven solo albums during his career blending the varying styles of traditional jazz, avant garde jazz, bebop, and New Orleans tradition, namely Mardi Gras Indian and Second line style. He has also served as banjo player at Preservation Hall, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Narvin Kimball, and directed the Preservation Hall Junior Jazz and Heritage Band. LeBlanc was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in the Seventh Ward. He heard the city's brass band parades in his neighborhood when he was a child, but it was The Beatles's famous Ed Sullivan Show appearance which inspired him to play the guitar.

Source: Wikipedia, “Carl LeBlanc”

Don Vappie  —  banjo, bass, guitar

Don Vappie (born 1956) is a New Orleans native and Creole master of the tenor banjo, equally fluent on bass, guitar, and vocals. A torchbearer of Creole jazz heritage, he leads the Creole Jazz Serenaders and Jazz Creole, has served as Wynton Marsalis's go-to banjo player, and toured and recorded with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He was inducted into the American Banjo Museum's Hall of Fame in 2022 and received the Steve Martin Banjo Prize in 2021. He continues to tour internationally, performing across Europe with New Orleans jazz ensembles.

Source: donvappie.com (official biography)

Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau  —  double bass

Alcide Louis "Slow Drag" Pavageau (March 7, 1888 – January 19, 1969) was an American jazz double bassist and guitarist. Pavageau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started his career as a dancer, mastering a dance called the Slow Drag which resulted in his nickname. He learned the guitar as a young man from his cousin Ulysses Picou, a singer in New Orleans. Pavageau came from a musical family and was related to families like the Tios, Picous, and Pirons who formed some of the earliest jazz bands. He played Buddy Petit, Bunk Johnson, and Herb Morand. Johnson bragged that he taught Louis Armstrong how to play cornet by ear. He started playing bass in 1927 when he was 39 years old and joined George Lewis's band in 1943. He also played in Bunk Johnson's band in New York City in 1945. He toured with Lewis through the end of the 1950s. In 1961, while playing with the Louis Cottrell Trio, he recorded New Orleans: The Living Legends for Riverside. He worked at Preservation Hall in the 1960s and recorded one album as a leader in 1965 in addition to frequent recording with Lewis. Pavageau was the son of Ferreol "Joseph" Pavageau and Alice Philippe.

Source: Wikipedia, “Alcide Pavageau”

James Prevost  —  double bass

James Prevost (1919-2004) was a New Orleans string bassist who held the bass chair in the touring Preservation Hall Jazz Band during the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in the classic lineup led by the Humphrey brothers alongside Sing Miller, Frank Demond, Cie Frazier, Narvin Kimball, and Allan Jaffe, and appearing on the band's CBS recordings of that era. Note: public documentation is sparse.

Source: Wikipedia (Preservation Hall Jazz Band article); standard jazz reference sources

Frank Fields  —  double bass

Frank Nomer Fields   (May 2, 1914 – September 18, 2005) was an American double bass player who was involved in many R&B, rock and roll and jazz recordings made in New Orleans. He was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana.  In the 1930s, he played with local jazz groups and with bandleader Claiborne Williams.   After serving in the US Navy during World War II, he joined Dave Bartholomew's band as bass player, and became one of the key session musicians at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studios in New Orleans, along with guitarist Ernest McLean, drummer Earl Palmer, pianist Salvador Doucette, and saxophonists Lee Allen and Red Tyler.  Fields played on many of the seminal rhythm and blues and early rock and roll records made in New Orleans, including Fats Domino's "The Fat Man" (recorded in 1949), and many of Domino's later hits; Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" (1955) and his later records on Specialty; and recordings by Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Shirley & Lee, Lloyd Price, Huey "Piano" Smith, Ray Charles and many others.  Fields was several years older than most of the other regular musicians.  Tyler described him as "about the most steady bass player I've ever worked with....

Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Fields”

Walter Payton  —  double bass, sousaphone

Walter Payton, Jr. (August 23, 1942 – October 28, 2010) was an American jazz bassist and sousaphonist. Payton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the French Market Jazz Hall Band and the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, and led his own group called the Snap Bean Band. His recording credits include Lee Dorsey's "Working in the Coal Mine", and Payton variously worked with Aaron Neville, Harry Connick Jr., Champion Jack Dupree and Chuck Carbo. Payton appeared on Saturday Night Live (Walter Payton/Walter Payton). Payton died in his hometown of New Orleans, after an illness, aged 68. He was the father of jazz trumpet player Nicholas Payton.

Source: Wikipedia, “Walter Payton”

Allan Jaffe  —  tuba (founder)

Allan Phillip Jaffe (April 24, 1935, Pottsville, Pennsylvania – March 9, 1987, New Orleans) was an American jazz tubist and the entrepreneur who, along with his wife Sandra, developed Preservation Hall into a New Orleans jazz tradition. He played the sousaphone in the Preservation Hall house band. Jaffe's grandfather was Russian-Jewish as was his father-the grandfather played french horn in the Imperial Russian Army. His father was a mandolin player and teacher. Jaffe learned piano and cornet before settling on tuba in junior high school. He studied at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Army. He was stationed to Fort Polk, Louisiana. Jaffe was living in New Orleans in 1961, when he took over management and creative direction of Preservation Hall with his wife Sandra.

Source: Wikipedia, “Allan Jaffe”

Cie Frazier  —  drums

Josiah "Cie" Frazier (February 23, 1904 – January 10, 1985) was an American jazz drummer. Frazier studied drums under several New Orleans jazz musicians, including Louis Cottrell, Sr., James William “Red Happy” Bolton, and Face-O Woods. He joined the Golden Rule Band with cousin Lawrence Marrero in 1921, and played in Marrero's Young Tuxedo Orchestra in the 1920s. He recorded with Papa Celestin's Tuxedo Brass Band in 1927 and played with A.J. Piron and Sidney Desvigne in the late 1920s and early 1930s. During the Great Depression Frazier played in WPA bands and in Navy dance bands. In 1945, he recorded with Wooden Joe Nicholas, and worked in the 1950s with Celestin, Percy Humphrey, George Williams, and the Eureka Brass Band. He played in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the 1960s, working there into the 1980s, and recorded in his last few decades with Kid Howard, De De Burke, George Lewis, Emile Barnes, Captain John Handy, and Don Ewell. He appears in the Steve McQueen film The Cincinnati Kid and even drummed on one session for Helen Reddy.

Source: Wikipedia, “Cie Frazier”

Paul Barbarin  —  drums

Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 – February 17, 1969) was an American jazz drummer from New Orleans. Barbarin grew up in New Orleans in a family of musicians, including his father Isidore, three of his brothers (including Louis), and his nephew (Danny Barker). He was a member of the Silver Leaf Orchestra and the Young Olympia Band. He moved to Chicago in 1917 and worked with Freddie Keppard and Jimmie Noone. From 1925–1927, he was a member of King Oliver's band. During the following year, he moved to New York City and played in Luis Russell's band for about four years. He left Russell and worked as a freelance musician, but he returned to Russell's band when it supported Louis Armstrong. For a brief time beginning in 1942, he worked for Red Allen's sextet, with Sidney Bechet in 1944 and Art Hodes in 1953. In 1955, he founded the Onward Brass Band in New Orleans. He spent the rest of his life as the leader of that band. Barbarin died on February 17, 1969, while playing snare drums during a Mardi Gras parade.

Source: Wikipedia, “Paul Barbarin”

Shannon Powell  —  drums

Shannon Powell (born April 8, 1962) is an American jazz and ragtime drummer. He has toured internationally and played with Ellis Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., Danny Barker, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Diana Krall, Earl King, Dr. John,  Preservation Hall, Marcus Roberts, John Scofield, Jason Marsalis, Leroy Jones, Nicholas Payton, and Donald Harrison Jr. Powell toured and recorded with fellow New Orleans native, Harry Connick Jr. Shannon was born and raised in the musically and culturally historic Tremé  neighborhood. Adjacent to the French Quarter and now made famous by the popular HBO program of the same name, the Faubourg Tremé was once a thriving community and has been home to many famous musicians, including Alphonse Picou, George Lewis, and Kermit Ruffins. Shannon's grandmother Veronica Batiste, played piano for silent film and in Baptist church.

Source: Wikipedia, “Shannon Powell”

Joe Lastie  —  drums

Joseph Lastie Jr. (born 1957) comes from one of the great musical families of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. His grandfather, Deacon Frank Lastie, is credited with pioneering the use of drums in church services at Guiding Star Spiritual Church, and his uncles David, Melvin, and Walter 'Popee' Lastie were all noted New Orleans musicians. Lastie joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in 1989 and anchored the band's drum chair for roughly three decades of touring and recording, also leading his own group, Joe Lastie's New Orleans Sound, which released an album on Preservation Hall Recordings. Note: portions of this entry rely on general biographical knowledge; documentation online is scattered.

Source: Preservation Hall Recordings; family history documented via Wikipedia entries for Walter 'Popee' Lastie and David Lastie