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Chapter 5: The Birth of an American Music: Jazz into the 1920s
� John Robichaux’s orchestra: This group rivaled Bolden’s band.
Robichaux played the more stately Creole variety of jazz, in contrast to
Bolden’s loose, black, bluesy jazz, but Bolden’s group won a battle
between the two bands.
� The Onward Brass Band: The band was one of New Orleans’s top
marching bands beginning in the 1880s. The group continued into the
’30s and was led by famed trumpeter Joe “King” Oliver for a short time
around 1915.
� The Excelsior Band: This troop lasted for decades and saw many top
players pass through its ranks, including cornet and trumpeters Henry
“Red” Allen and Manuel Perez (who also played with Onward), trombonist
Honoré Dutrey (who later played with Louis Armstrong), and clarinetists
Lorenzo and Luis Tio.
� The Original Creole Band: Freddie Keppard featured his trumpet in this
ensemble that was one of the first jazz groups to tour extensively, bringing
live New Orleans jazz to California and many points in between as early
as 1914. Since Keppard began performing as a teenager at the time of
Bolden’s prime, his later recordings are among the few that give an idea
of what jazz sounded like in its early years.
� Freddie Keppard: He was a bandleader and cornetist and was second
only to Bolden among jazz’s early New Orleans horn players. He led the
Olympia Orchestra and in the 1920s was one of the first New Orleans
jazz musicians to move to Chicago. Compared with Armstrong’s smooth
style, Keppard chopped steadily ahead in marching band rhythm.
� George Lewis: Lewis was a clarinetist who stayed and played in New
Orleans while his peers went off to Chicago in the 1920s. He joined trumpeter
Bunk Johnson for a 1942 recording that replicated earlier New
Orleans jazz.
� Bunk Johnson: Born in 1889, trumpeter Bunk Johnson is the important
link between two masters: Bolden and Armstrong. Later, he was one of
the few original New Orleans players still alive to record the music
during its revival in the ’40s.
� Fate Marable: Fate was a pianist whose band played on Mississippi
riverboats in the early 1900s. Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, drummers
Baby Dodds and Zutty Singleton, banjo and guitar player Johnny St. Cyr,
trumpeter Henry “Red” Allen and many other musicians who honed
their skills in Marable’s hard working group.
� George Baquet: A top clarinetist, Baquet founded the Excelsior Band,
played in Keppard’s Creole Orchestra, and mentored Sidney Bechet, one
of the greatest clarinetists to come out of New Orleans.
� Kid Ory: This trombonist, born in 1886, was credited for popularizing
“tailgate” trombone — when New Orleans marching bands performed
from the backs of wagons and the trombone hung out over the tailgate.
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