{{short description|American jazz trumpeter and cornetist}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = De De Pierce | image = De De Pierce, New Orleans Jazz musician, cropped.jpg | caption = Pierce in 1970s | birth_date = February 18, 1904 | death_date = November 23, 1973 | instrument = jazz [[trumpet]], [[cornet]] }} '''Joseph De Lacroix "De De" Pierce''' (February 18, 1904 – November 23, 1973)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1957}}</ref> was an American [[jazz]] [[trumpet]]er and [[cornet]]ist. He is best remembered for the songs "Peanut Vendor" and "Dippermouth Blues", both with [[Billie Pierce]].<ref name="Dead">{{Cite web|url=http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/1970.html|title=The Dead Rock Stars Club - The 1970s|website=Thedeadrockstarsclub.com|access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref> [[File:Preservation Hall DeDe Pierce Jim Robinson Willie Humphrey.jpg|right|thumb|Pierce on trumpet in [[Preservation Hall]], 1966, with [[Willie Humphrey]] on clarinet.]]
==Biography== Pierce was born '''Joseph De Lacroix Pierce''' in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], United States.<ref name="Dead" /> Pierce's first gig was with [[Arnold Dupas]] in New Orleans in 1924.
During his time playing in city [[nightclub]]s, he met Billie Pierce, who became his wife as well as a musical companion;<ref name="LarkinGE"/> the two were the house band at the [[Luthjens Dance Hall]] from the 1930s through the 1950s. They released several [[album]]s together but stopped performing in the middle of the 1950s due to illness, which left De De Pierce [[blindness|blind]].<ref name="AMG">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=billie-de-de-pierce-p224161/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Billie & De De Pierce |author=Yanow, Scott |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=November 2, 2010}}</ref>
By 1959, they had returned to performing,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and De De Pierce toured with [[Ida Cox]] and played with the [[Preservation Hall Jazz Band]], before further health problems ended his career.<ref name="AMG" />
He died in November 1973, at the age of 69.<ref name="Dead" /> He received a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] jazz funeral.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Reed|first=Roy Reed|date=1973-11-27|title=For DeDe Pierce: 'Jazz Funeral' With 4 Bands|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/27/archives/for-dede-pierce-jazz-funeral-with-4-bands.html|access-date=2021-09-27|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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