Tuxedo Brass Band

The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band is a founded by Papa Celestin and until his death led jazz band in New Orleans. In the 1920s they played in different outfits at upscale nightclubs and as Tuxedo Brass Band as a typical New Orleans Brass Band. The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band continued to exist after the death of Papa Celestin on.

It was founded in 1910 by Papa Celestin and played in the Tuxedo Dance Hall in the entertainment district of Storyville New Orleans ( North Franklin Street). Members were George Filhé (trombone ), Peter Bocage (violin), Lorenzo Tio clarinet, T. Brouchard (bass ), Manuel Manetta at the piano and Louis Cottrell senior on drums. They kept the name even in Tuxedo, as the dance hall was opened in 1913 after a shootout in which the owner died, closed, and there was also continued after the Storyville nightclub district in 1917 closed. In a way, the Tuxedo Brass Band was even founded in 1917, when Manuel Perez temporarily disbanded his Onward Brass Band, moved from the Musicians in the Tuxedo Brass Band. 1921 and 1922 played Louis Armstrong in the Brass Band. Other members were Alphonse Picou, Mutt Carey, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Lorenzo Tio, Peter Bocage.

From the Brass Band, the dance orchestra Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, whose members appeared in tuxedos ( tuxedos ), developed in the 1920s, and which were very popular in high society circles in New Orleans in the 1920s. In addition to this dance band, the Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, Papa Celestin had even further in the 1920s, his brass band. In 1925, she took on for Okeh Records. Soon after, an argument arose between Celestin and the co-director William " Bebé " Ridgley (1882-1961) and both founded their own bands under this name, the competition took until 1936 Ridgley had to retire for health reasons.

After the death of Celestin 1954, according to the trombonist Eddie Pierson Celestins wish the band and 1958, the banjo player Papa French. After his death in 1977 his son, drummer Bob French took over the lead, and after his death in 2011, Gerald French, drummer and nephew of Bob French.

They are not to be confused with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band founded in 1938 or with the German Tuxedo Jazz Band.