Alcide Pavageau

Alcide Louis "Slow Drag" Pavageau (March 7, 1888 – January 19, 1969)[1][2] was an American jazz double bassist and guitarist.

[1] He started his career as a dancer, mastering a dance called the Slow Drag which resulted in his nickname.

In 1961, while playing with the Louis Cottrell Trio, he recorded New Orleans: The Living Legends for Riverside.

His family traced their roots to wealthy French planters who were displaced by the Haitian Revolution and friends of Bienville, the founder of New Orleans.

[3] Although rumors abound about Alcide Pavageau being a nephew of renowned New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau, this is not true.

Alcide Pavageau second from left playing string bass. Photograph by Stanley Kubrick , published in Look magazine, 6 June 1950