* 1882 Algiers La.
† 1929

As a brass band musician he played with: Excelsior, Henry Allen, Pacific, Terminal (?), Tuxedo Brass Band

615 Slidell (Algiers) was the home of cornet and baritone-horn player George Hooker (1882-1929?) from 1911-1914. Hooker was a brass band musician who worked with the Pacific Brass Band about 1900 and the Tuxedo Brass Band in the mid-1920’s. He worked regularly until the Depression with Henry Allen's Brass Band (of Algiers) and occasionally with the Excelsior Brass Band.i1,16

Sources (internet):
i1 http://algierspoint.org/AHS/jazz_tour_2.html

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