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The Olympia Brass Band performed
on and off from 1900 to 1915i1
From this musicians it's known that they played in the
Brass Band:
Cornet/trumpet
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Trombone
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Clarinet
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Bariton horn
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Alto horn
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Tuba
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Snare drum
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"Ratty" "Old man" John Vean (Original
member 10),
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Bass drum
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Leader
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Freddie Keppard
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The Olympia Brass Band existed on and off from 1900 to 1915
led by cornetist Freddie Keppard, with Joe Oliver playing second cornet
and Alphonse Picou, Sidney Bechet, and Lorenzo Tio on clarinets. Oscar
"Papa" Celestin formed the Original Tuxedo Orchestra in 1910. Keppard
later led the Original Creole Band, while Joe Oliver worked for trombonist
Kid Ory in his Brownskin Band. When Oliver left for Chicago, as Keppard
had done, Louis Armstrong replaced him on cornet, There were probably a
hundred of these seminal groups, and their players seemed infinitely
interchangeable. All of them understood the basic premise of the music:
collective improvisation.i3
Around the turn of the century, when the great Buddy Bolden was the king
of New Orleans jazz, the legendary musician played his cornet all over
town: Rampart and Perdido streets, Uptown, the lakefront and across the
river. i4
Dejan's Olympia Brass Band
Dejan's Olympia Brass Band performed from about 1960 until -
Author Mick Burns wrote in 2001 a book
about Harold Dejanīs brass band called "the great Olympia Band".
1966, April 2:
Olympia brass band played at the funeral of Avery Kid Howard.
(Notes from a diary by
Jim Finch (See New
Orleans Music Vol 15 no 6)
1968:
Dalhem - Berlin
The Olympia Brass Band-one of New
Orleans' last and greatest old-time street bands, leads a parade through the
streets of the "French Quarter of Dahlem" in Berlin (Germany)
1974:
The Olympia Brass Band entertains the fans and
the team (of the New Orleans Hornets) before their first-ever home game.
(Municipal Auditorium, 1974)
Mr. Ernest "Doc" Watson playing his tenor sax in 2004.
When, where ?
Sources books:
10 Jazzmen by Frederick Ramsey jr
Charles Edward Smith
13 The
Great Olympia Band by Mick Burns
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