# Peter Packay

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**Pierre Paquet**, better known as **Peter Packay** (August 8, 1904, [Brussels](/source/Brussels) - December 26, 1965, [Westende](/source/Westende)) was a Belgian [jazz](/source/Jazz) trumpeter, arranger, and composer.

Packay lived with his family in [China](/source/China) for part of his childhood, but returned to Belgium in 1912. As a teenager, he was crippled in one arm by an accident, but decided to learn to play trumpet anyway at age 20, joining the Varsity Ramblers. He cofounded a band called Red Beans with [David Bee](/source/David_Bee) and served as its principal composer of originals; Bee left the group and was replaced by [Robert De Kers](/source/Robert_De_Kers), and Packay remained its leader until its dissolution in 1929. In the 1930s he formed another group, Packay's Swing Academy, which played with [Coleman Hawkins](/source/Coleman_Hawkins) among others. He also did arrangements for bandleader [Billy Arnold](/source/Billy_Arnold_(bandleader)).

As a composer, Packay's works included "Alabama Mamma", "The Blue Duke", "Dixie Melody", and "Lullaby for a Mexican Alligator". Following [World War II](/source/World_War_II) he gave up performance to concentrate on composition and arrangement: among others "Jazz in the Rain", "One Day" and "Grey Skys".

## References

- Robert Pernet, "Peter Packay". *[The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz](/source/The_New_Grove)*. 2nd edition, ed. [Barry Kernfeld](/source/Barry_Kernfeld).

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