{{short description|American jazz trumpeter and violinist (1887–1967)}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Peter Bocage | image = SuperiorOch1910Bocage.jpg | caption =Peter Bocage in 1910 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name =Peter Edwin Bocage | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|7|31}} | birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|12|3 |1887|8|4 |mf=yes}} | death_place =New Orleans | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Trumpet, violin | years_active = | past_member_of =Onward Brass Band, Excelsior Brass Band }}
'''Peter Edwin Bocage''' (31 July 1887<ref>{{Cite interview|title=Interview by William Russell and Richard B. Allen|url=https://musicrising.tulane.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/383/2018/07/bocage_peter_19590129.pdf|last=Bocage|first=Peter|date=29 January 1959|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530205021/https://musicrising.tulane.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/383/2018/07/bocage_peter_19590129.pdf|archive-date=30 May 2020|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz |date=2004 |publisher=Virgin |isbn=978-1-85227-183-1 |pages=101 |language=en}}</ref> – 3 December 1967) was an American jazz trumpeter and violinist.
==Career== At 21, he played violin as the leader of a ragtime band, the Superior Orchestra, which included Bunk Johnson. He played trumpet in the Tuxedo Orchestra, the Onward Brass Band, and as the leader of the Excelsior Brass Band.<ref name="Witmer">{{cite web|title=Peter Bocage|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-bocage-mn0000317803|last1=Witmer|first1=Rose of Sharon|date=|website=AllMusic|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530205521/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-bocage-mn0000317803|archive-date=30 May 2020|accessdate=18 March 2019}}</ref> He played with King Oliver's band, the Fate Marable Orchestra, and A. J. Piron.<ref name="Witmer" /> He performed with Sidney Bechet and at the Cotton Club in New York City.<ref name="Witmer" /> He made records with Piron's New Orleans Orchestra in 1923, and later with his band the Creole Serenaders. He also taught Louis Armstrong how to read music notes. Both jazz musicians met during 'jam sessions' and created a friendship through music. In later years he performed at Preservation Hall in New Orleans.<ref name="Witmer" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Bocage (1897-1967) |url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/peter-bocage-1897-1967/ |website=Red Hot Jazz Archive |date=25 April 2020 |accessdate=25 April 2020 }}</ref>
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