Young Tuxedo Brass Band

The Young Tuxedo Brass Band is a brass band in New Orleans, which was founded in 1938 by clarinetist John Casimir ( 1898-1963 ). They worked from the 1940s to a revival of the brass band tradition in New Orleans. The band still exists today as one of the most traditional marching bands in New Orleans.

They are not to be confused with the earlier Tuxedo Brass Band of Papa Celestin, after which they named themselves as younger band. In 1954 she played at the funeral of Papa Celestin.

Usually playing in her nine to eleven musicians: two trumpets, two trombones, clarinet and saxophone, sousaphone or tuba, snare drum and bass drum.

They took first in 1958 for Atlantic Records on (New Orleans Joys with Paul Barbarin on the snare drum ). In 1978 she played at the White House to mark the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival. In 1975, she participated with Paul McCartney in New Orleans. They play regularly at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Head was after the death of Casimir 1963 for a short time his cousin Wilbert Tilman, the sousaphone player of the band, but for health reasons as late as 1963 at the clarinet and saxophone Andrew Morgan ( 1901-1972 ) gave. After his death, was the saxophonist Herman Sherman (1923-1984) of the ladder and then the trumpeter Gregg Stafford. Under Sherman, they toured in the U.S. and abroad in Europe.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Jazz Begins: Sounds of New Orleans Streets: Funeral and Parade Music ( with Andrew Anderson, John Brunious, Albert Walters, Clement Tervalon, Jim Robinson and Eddie Pierson, Herman Sherman, Andrew Morgan, John Casimir, Wilbert Tillman, Emile Knox, Paul Barbarin, 1958)
• Jazz Continues ( with Jack Willis, Gregg Stafford, John Simmons, Lester Caliste, Clement Tervalon, Michael White, Herman Sherman, Joe Torregano, Walter Payton, Lawrence Trotter, Charles Barbarin, 1983)