JACK LaRUE

Jack LaRue.

Jack LaRue was from New Orleans but had never played Dixieland before he played with Kid Ory´s band. He depped *) for Buster Wilson at Billy Berg's club whenever Buster was sick, but was dropped in favour of Little Brother Montgomery for the 1948 Carnegie Hall tour.

Peter Vacher says about Ramon "Jack" LaRue :

Ramon ‘Jack’ LaRue was a New Orleans-born pianist who came to Los Angeles in the 1930s and appeared with Louis in ‘Pennies from Heaven’ performing ‘Skeleton in the Closet’ as one of the masked bandsmen seen on screen. He later surfaced with Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band and Joe Darensbourg.  in my book says ‘he wasn’t dependable – one of these guys where you don’t  know which way he’s going to jump.

*) A 'dep' is the term is a shortened form of the word 'deputy', and in the music biz it means a stand-in, a musician who takes the place of a regular band member - usually when they've fallen ill or more likely got a better paid gig on.