* January 28 1880 or 1885
† August 20 1949

As a brass band musician he played with: Camelia, Eureka, Olympia Brass Band


Baby Dodds, "The Baby Dodds Story":
Big Eye Louis Nelson lived downtown, and I (Baby Dodds) lived uptown. He was on the north side of town, and I was living on the south side. In other words, he was a Creole and lived in the French part of town. Canal Street was the dividing line and the people from the different sections didn't mix. The musicians mixed only if you were good enough. But at one time the Creole fellows thought uptown musicians weren't good enough to play with them, because most of the uptown musicians didn't read music. Everybody in the French part of town read music.
Source: www.nps.gov/jazz/Jazz%20History_origins_pre1895.htm

From the age of 15, he worked in Storyville. He led his own band, the Ninth Ward Band. He joined the Imperial orchestra in 1907 and the Superior Orchestra in 1910. In 1916 he replaced George Baquet to tour U.S. with the Original Creole Orchestra.16

Published on facebook
Sources (internet):

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