# Doc Souchon

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American jazz musician

**Edmond "Doc" Souchon** (October 25, 1897, [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans) – August 24, 1968, New Orleans) was an American [jazz](/source/Jazz) guitarist and writer on music. He was a pivotal figure in the historical preservation of [New Orleans jazz](/source/Dixieland) in the middle of the 20th century.

Souchon received schooling to become a [physician](/source/Physician) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago), though he was playing regularly in groups such as the [Six and Seven Eighths Band](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Six_and_Seven_Eighths_Band&action=edit&redlink=1) in the 1910s. He helped oversee a reconstitution of this band in 1945 as a four-piece, and made many recordings of early [string band](/source/String_band_(American_music)) tunes through the early 1960s. Alongside this, Souchon recorded with many noted [New Orleans jazz](/source/Dixieland) mainstays, such as [Johnny Wiggs](/source/Johnny_Wiggs), [Sherwood Mangiapane](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherwood_Mangiapane&action=edit&redlink=1), [Papa Jack Laine](/source/Papa_Jack_Laine), [Raymond Burke](/source/Raymond_Burke_(clarinetist)), and [Paul Barbarin](/source/Paul_Barbarin).

Souchon was involved early on in the management of the [New Orleans Jazz Club](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Orleans_Jazz_Club&action=edit&redlink=1), and served as president of the organization early in its existence. He had his own radio program on [WWL](/source/WWL_(AM)), and edited the journal *Second Line* from 1951 until his death in 1968. Aside from his contributions to jazz journals such as *Jazz* and *Jazz Report*, Souchon compiled a photo book with Al Rose entitled *New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album*, first published in 1967 and subsequently revised in 1978 and 1984.

He helped establish the [National Jazz Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Jazz_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1942, as well as the [New Orleans Jazz Museum](/source/New_Orleans_Jazz_Museum) about a decade later. His record collection, which included some 2,000 recordings of New Orleans jazz, was bequeathed to the [New Orleans Public Library](/source/New_Orleans_Public_Library), and many other music-related materials he collected are now in the possession of the [William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive](/source/Hogan_Jazz_Archive) at [Tulane University](/source/Tulane_University).

## Discography

- *[Doc Souchon and His Milneburg Boys](/source/Doc_Souchon_and_His_Milneburg_Boys)* (1969)

## References

- "Edmond Souchon", *[The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz](/source/The_New_Grove)*.

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