Great and little-recorded clarinetist from the earliest days of the 20th Century in New Orleans . . Big Eye Louis was one of the busiest of the first generation of jazz players and exerted considerable influence on Sidney Bechet and Jimmy Noone, among others. Here are some of his very few recordings with Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band in 1940 (with Alphonse Picou, Jim Robinson and others), John Reid's New Orleans Pioneers in 1944 (with Picou, Peter Bocage, Walter Decou, Pops Foster and Bechet on piano), Wooden Joe Nicholas' Band in 1949 (with Louis Nelson and Louis Keppard) and his own groups in 1949 (with Charlie Love, Louis Nelson, Louis Gallaud, Ernest Rogers and Johnny St. Cyr)