* Oct 6, 1885 Plaquemine, La
† Aug 7 1963 New Orleans La.

As a brass band musician he played with: Excelsior, Henry Allen's, Pacific, Tuxedo, Brass Band

1006 Verret in Algiers, was the home from 1924-1940 of cornet player, Charlie Love (1885-1963), the son of James Love of the Pickwick brass band. Charlie played in and around New Orleans from about 1900, playing with the Cado brass band Shreveport and with Henry Allen's brass band. He worked in Storyville for Tom Anderson and was a barman in 1921 for Lulu White, the famous “Sporting House” keeper. Love started playing regularly in New Orleans in 1925 with the Lyric Theater pit band led by John Robichaux and was part of the WPA band in the late 1940’s and 50’s as well as playing in parade bands, most notably the Tuxedo brass band.i1,16

See also: Talking jazz with Charlie Love (Charles Edwin Love).i2

Sources (internet):
i1 http://www.thejazzgazette.be/january2003.htm
i1 http://www.thejazzgazette.be/january2003.htm

Sources (brassband history):
16 New Orleans Jazz, family album by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon