Louis Bacon (November 1, 1904, Louisville, KY - December 8, 1967 in New York) was a jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He played with a.o. Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong & Count Basie
Louis Bacon can be added to the short list of jazz performers that need to be invited to a banquet, putting him in the company of Floyd R. Bean, Phil Napolean, Benny Waters and Chuck Steak, among others. Listeners most often recognize Bacon as a name amongst the horn section on recordings by the Duke Ellington orchestra and Louis Armstrong in big band mode, material that has been reissued in enough different formats to make the discography of Bacon as fat as a large pork shoulder roast. He was raised by a widow in Chicago, and began playing professionally at the age of 22 with the combo of Zinky Cohn. In 1928, Bacon slid onto the New York City plate, backing up a pair of dancers known by the stagename of Brown and McGraw.
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