The Pacific Brass Band performed from about 1900 until 1910 or 1912. The band was based in Algiers6,p26. Probably the band may have come into existence on the demise of the Pickwick Brass Band and declined as Henry Allen's Brass Band gained popularity. Had the name of the band relation with the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans.
In the 1920s or 1930s Henry "Kid" Rena used the name for his brass band, according to Kid Howard.

Uniform: they wore a uniform of green, brown and gold and a green Stetson hat
                 with a large white feather4,p-200.

From this musicians it's known that they played in the Brass Band:

At George Sims house the band rehearsed.

Milton "Mooney" Martin told in an interview, that Vinson and Johnson were the bands trombonists in 1908.

Sources books:
4 New Orleans Jazz: a revised history by R. Collins
6 Bunk Johnson his life & times by Christopher Hillman
16 New Orleans Jazz, family album by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon

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