* Aug 6, 1900 New Orleans, La.
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As a brass band musician he played with: Reliance Brass Band

At 14 he played with ragtime bands and turned down offer to go north with Original Dixieland Jass Band because of his youth. In New Orleans he worked with Jack Laine's Reliance Brass Band and played excursions on the steamer Majestic on Lake Ponchartrain. He was also in the Triangle and Alamo theaters, the Pup cafe and with Johnny Dedroit's band. In 1925 he formed his Liberty Theater and the Lavida Ballroom.16

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16 New Orleans Jazz, family album by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon