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* Aug 30, 1929 Near Algiers, La.
† Mar 29, 2003
As a brass band musician he played with:
Onward Brass Band
Grand-nephew of Manuel Manetta.
Toured Japan with George Lewis as his string bass player.16
Placide started out in 1941 with his mother’s band, and
paraded for many years with the Onward Brass Band, even after switching to bass.
Played with the Papa Celestin Orchestra in the early -950s, and also worked with
Barney
He toured Japan in the George Lewis Band, and was
with Sweet Emma & Her New Orleans Music in 1963. In the 70s he led the
Louis Cottrell Band, and he was a member of the Original Dixieland Hall
Band which he led on a tour of Australia He also at one time led a group
known as Placide Adams’ Dixieland Jazz Band.19
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