Olympia Brass Band

The Olympia Brass Band is a brass band in New Orleans, which was founded in 1958 by Harold Dejan, who previously played in the Eureka Brass Band.

There was previously an Olympic Orchestra or an Olympia Brass Band, which existed intermittently from about 1900 until 1915. Head was from about 1906 Freddie Keppard, who was probably up to his departure to California the end of 1912 there. In addition, there were playing King Oliver ( as a second cornet next Keppard ), Alphonse Picou, and at times Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Lorenzo Tio, Bunk Johnson, Louis Nelson Delisle. From 1913 it was taken over by Armand J. Piron.

The band was founded in 1958 Olympics was part of the renaissance of brass bands in New Orleans. Usually it consists of three trumpets, two trombones, two saxophones, clarinet, tuba or sousaphone, snare drum and bass drum. In 1966 she played at the funeral of Kid Howard. In 1968 they were in Berlin and performed at a parade in Dahlem, they played in London in 1972 on the radio for the 25th wedding anniversary of the Queen and in New Orleans during the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1973 they were in the James Bond movie life and let die at a funeral march. In addition to parades they played long once a week at Preservation Hall. Of them there are many recordings.

It included, among others, Kid Sheik Cola, trumpeter Andy Anderson, tenor saxophonist Emanuel Paul and Alan Jaffe on sousaphone.