Charles Neville

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Neville-2611

Charles Neville was an American R&B and jazz musician best known as part of The Neville Brothers. Known onstage as "Charlie the horn man", his saxophone playing helped earn the group a Grammy Award for best pop instrumental performance, for the song "Healing Chant" on the album Yellow Moon.

The second oldest of the Neville brothers, Charles Neville was born in New Orleans on Dec. 28, 1938 to Arthur Lanon Neville Sr. and Amelia (Landry) Neville and was raised in the Calliope housing project with his musical brothers, Art, Aaron, and Cyril. Their uncle, George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry, was lead singer of the Mardi Gras Indian group The Wild Tchoupitoulas. Charles left home when he was 15 to play saxophone with the Rabbit’s Foot Minstrel Show. When back in New Orleans, he played in the house band at the Dew Drop Inn.

He married Vera Janice Jones on 27 Oct 1954.

From https://valleyadvocate.com/2018/04/27/world-renowned-saxophonist-va...

Charles Neville is survived by his wife and his two sons and also his daughter, Charmaine. Neville had the great fortune of performing with all of his children during his career.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Neville_(musician)_
• Charles Neville Of The Neville Brothers Dies At 79 link
• https://celebratingcharles.org/
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYPT-RNZ : 14 March 2018), Charles Neville in household of Arthur Neville, Ward 13, New Orleans, New Orleans City, Orleans, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 36-357, sheet 8A, line 9, family 166, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1432.
• "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VF4T-QSH : 10 March 2018), Charles Barrian Neville and Vera Janice Jones, 27 Oct 1954; citing Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 4,272,737.
• Healing Chant
• “Horn Legend Charles Neville Of Neville Brothers Dies Aged 79” Published on April 27, 2018