Onward Brass Band

The Onward Brass Band was a brass band in New Orleans, which existed from about 1884 to the 1930s (the first news of it there is from 1887 ). She was in the period up to the First World War one of the most famous brass bands and marching bands in New Orleans.

History

The line was 1887-1898 Professor JO Lainez, 1898/99 James MacNeil and then Manuel Perez. While Perez 1915/16 was launched in Chicago King Oliver and Maurice Durand the band. 1917 Perez sparked the band during his second stay in Chicago temporarily.

Maybe it was one of the bands that played in 1898 for entertainment black troops in the Spanish -American War, the Onward Brass Band went to Cuba.

To her ( 1900 ) included, in addition Perez jazz musicians like King Oliver, Peter Bocage, Lorenzo Tio, George Baquet and Isidore Barbarin. On one occasion in 1922 - the funeral of the father of Eddie Vinson in Algiers - Louis Armstrong also played with the band ( shortly before he went to Chicago ). In summer, the band members wore white pants and hats and blue jackets.

Start-up 1955

The Onward Brass Band was founded in 1955 by Paul Barbarin new. He led the band until 1969, then followed him Louis Cottrell, 1978 Placide Adams and from 2003 Kurt Robert Nice hiking. In the band also Louis Barbarin, Kid Howard, Jack Willis, the trumpeter Ernie Cagnolatti and Albert Walters and trombonist Louis Nelson played.

Discography

  • Onward Brass Band The Tradition Continues (2009)
  • Paul Barbarin & the Onward Brass Band, Last Journey of a Jazzman: Funeral of Lester Santiago ( Nobility, 1965)
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