The Eagle Band

The Eagle Band (also Eagle Brass Band ) was a band from the early days of New Orleans jazz. It originated in 1907, when the trombonist Frankie Dusen took over the band of demented Buddy Bolden. The name she had played the Eagle Saloon on the corner Perdido and South Rampart Street in the Back O'Town area of ​​New Orleans, in your Buddy Bolden and the band. They also played in the amusement park Lincoln Park. Dusen previously headed already practically the band (though not officially ) and fired the unreliable and forgetful, applicable as violent Buddy Bolden after it failed to appear at a gig outside in Mobile ( Alabama), the last straw after a long series of unpopular incidents.

The band existed until 1917, when Dusen with some other members drove to Los Angeles to play with Jelly Roll Morton. But they separated soon after the dispute of Morton, and Dusen then formed another band. The Eagle Band was very popular 1907-1917 in New Orleans. Her repertoire and style remained the their time under Buddy Bolden arrested, who remained present so even after his retirement in 1907 even younger musicians, and they were unique to Sidney Bechet in New Orleans in the slow-paced game of the blues. The band never took on.

Many later famous jazz musicians played at times in the Eagle Band, including:

• The trumpeter Buddy Petit, Bunk Johnson, Peter Bocage, Freddie Keppard, King Oliver, Tig Chambers, Edward Clem, Joe Johnson, Frank Keelin, John Penerton, Wild Ned
• The clarinetist Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, Frank Lewis, Big Eye Louis Nelson, Willie Parker, Lorenzo Tio Jr.
• The bassist Pops Foster, Dandy Lewis, Ed Garland, Bill Johnson, Bob Lyons
• On guitar, Peter Bocage, Lorenzo Staulz (who also sang ), Cliff Jones, Brock Mumford, Richard Payne
• The drummer Baby Dodds, Walter Brundy, Chinee Foster, Tubby Hall, Henry Zeno

The star trumpeter Bolden replaced initially Tig Chambers, from 1910 Bunk Johnson and from 1914 Buddy Petit.

The members of the band consisted usually of six musicians, in 1916, for example, Frankie Dusen trombone, Buddy Petit Trumpet, Big Eye Nelson clarinet, Chinee Foster drums, Lorenzo Staulz guitar, bass Dandy Lewis. They played at dance events and as a marching band.