EMANUEL PAUL interviewed by William Russell, April 19, 1960 (courtesy Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University) My name is Emanuel Paul, I was born on February 2nd., 1904, in the Carrollton District of New Orleans, I started around in the music fine when I was seventeen years old, that would be around 1921, that was when I played violin. During that time I was associated with the church.