"had used pots and pans; another story claimed that the fatal heart attack of a celebrated conductor was caused by jazz. In 1919, Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans began playing in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings. During the same year, Bessie Smith made her first recordings. Chicago was developing ""Hot Jazz"", and King Oliver joined Bill Johnson. Bix Beiderbecke formed The Wolverines in 1924. Despite its Southern black origins, there was a larger market for jazzy dance"
"of its members and is more often mentioned in histories of jazz. This is most likely because he was one of the few members to make surviving recordings. Because of his relative fame compared to the other band members, many assume that the Creole Band was led by Keppard. There is, however, no evidence that Keppard played any major role in the organization of the band (planning tours and events, choosing songs for the repertoire, signing contracts, etc.). As such, Bill Johnson was most likely the leader of the group. From 1915 to 1917, the Original Creole Orchestra (sometimes also"
"Jimmy Palao James Palao, also James Florestan Palao February 19, 1879 – January 8, 1925 was an African-American jazz musician. He is believed to have coined the term ""jazz"" as leader of the Original Creole Orchestra in the early twentieth century. James A. Palao was born in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana to Felix Palao and Clotilde Rebecca Spriggs. At the age of six, his father recognized that Jimmy had musical talent, and Jimmy received extensive musical training and violin lessons from a German teacher. Palao also received instruction from his uncle Edgar Palao and Felix Palao himself. Jimmy went to"
"with more than 80 Nobel laureates. Chicago's vibrant jazz and blues scene both have strong roots in the Culture Coast. In 1918, jazz cornet player and bandleader Joe ""King"" Oliver came up from New Orleans and set up shop in Bronzeville. In 1922, he recruited the 22-year-old Louis Armstrong, a younger rival from his native Louisiana, to join his King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band as second cornet. Other band members were Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Honore Dutrey (trombone), Lil Hardin (piano), Baby Dodds (drums) and Bill Johnson (double bass and banjo). Throughout the 1920s, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and other"
"Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. At this time, the personnel in Oliver's band were Joe ""King"" Oliver on cornet, Baby Dodds' brother Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Davey Jones on alto saxophone, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, Lil Hardin on piano, Jimmy Palao on violin, and Eddie Garland on bass fiddle. They moved to California in 1921 to work with Oliver there, and they played together for about fifteen months. In 1922, the band, excepting Garland, Palao, and Jones, followed Oliver to Chicago, which would be his base of operations for several years. They began playing at the Lincoln Gardens, and Louis Armstrong"
"and Oakland, California. In 1922 Oliver and his band returned to Chicago, where they began performing as King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band at the Royal Gardens cabaret (later renamed the Lincoln Gardens). In addition to Oliver on cornet, the personnel included his protégé Louis Armstrong on second cornet, Baby Dodds on drums, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lil Hardin (later Armstrong's wife) on piano, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, and Bill Johnson on double bass. Recordings made by this group in 1923 for Gennett, Okeh, Paramount, and Columbia demonstrated the New Orleans style of collective improvisation, also known as Dixieland,"
"members. In the 1920s, D'Jalma Thomas Garnier took leadership of the group, and thereafter made appearances both under its own name and under Ganier's name. The original spelling of the French Creole family name contains the ""r"": Garnier, and his descendents maintain that original spelling. For the sake of correct pronunciation, however, D'Jalma Garnier (Ganier) left out the ""r"" to facilitate the correct French pronunciation, which is used today whether there is an ""r"" in the name or not. Garnier is the grandfather of zydeco/Cajun musician, composer, and pedestrian scholar D'Jalma Garnier III. D'Jalma Thomas Garnier, the bandleader, played trumpet,"
"to 1898, the Henry Allen Brass Band from 1897 to 1900, the Jimmy Palao Band from 1900–1903, the Buddy Bolden Band from 1903 to 1905, and the Imperial Jazz Band from 1905 to 1907. Bill Johnson remembered that Jimmie Palao called the music played by the Imperial Jazz Band ""jazz."" He also remembered how excited the audience would get when the band would play. Palao led the Original Creole Orchestra. According to jazz scholar Lawrence Gushee, the Original Creole Orchestra was the first African American band from New Orleans to perform jazz in over 75 cities in the USA and"
"Canada. The members of The Original Creole Orchestra were Freddy Keppard, Eddie Vincent, Norwood Williams, George Baquet, and Dink Johnson. The Original Creole Orchestra disbanded in 1918. A recording called ""Tack 'Em Down"" by the Creole Band and published by Victor Talking Machine Company was never issued and no test pressing has surfaced, but should it be found, it would be the earliest known jazz recording by an African-American band. Jimmie Palao went on to play with the Lawrence Duhe Band, the King Oliver Band, the Jones Dreamland Band, The Jolly Jazzing Jeopards, John Wickliffe's Syncopated Gingersnaps, and the Dave"
"Kevin Herridge. Jimmy Palao married his wife, Armontine Carter Palao, in 1905 at St. Catherine's Church in New Orleans Louisiana. They had four daughters, Clotilde Palao Wilson, Mabel Palao Williams, Agatha Palao Singleton, and Anita Palao McAdams. Jimmy Palao James Palao, also James Florestan Palao February 19, 1879 – January 8, 1925 was an African-American jazz musician. He is believed to have coined the term ""jazz"" as leader of the Original Creole Orchestra in the early twentieth century. James A. Palao was born in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana to Felix Palao and Clotilde Rebecca Spriggs. At the age of six,"
"Ory's Creole Trombone ""Ory's Creole Trombone"" is a jazz composition by Kid Ory. Ory first recorded it in Los Angeles in 1921 (or 1922, according to other sources). The band included Ory on trombone, Mutt Carey on cornet, Dink Johnson on clarinet, Fred Washington on piano, Ed Garland on bass and Ben Borders on drums. The recording of ""Ory's Creole Trombone"" was released by John and Reb Spikes' short-lived Sunshine Records label. It was the first issued recording session by an African American jazz band from New Orleans. (Contrary to sometimes repeated misinformation that it marked the first jazz recording"
"tour Chicago and New York. In their 1915 performance at the Winter Garden, for a show entitled ""Town Topics"", the group was billed as ""That Creole Band."" Thus, Freddie Keppard was among the first musicians as well as the first cornetist to take the New Orleans ensemble style outside of the city. Keppard, who signed one photograph of himself with a caption describing himself as the ""star cornetist"" of the ""Creole Ragtime Band,"" probably considered himself the star of the Original Creole Orchestra. Although he was the youngest member of the band, he is perhaps the most well-known of all"
"rehearsals. In 1944 Wilson became a member of a traditional New Orleans band that was a leader of the West Coast revival, put together for the CBS Radio series ""The Orson Welles Almanac"". The all-star band also included Mutt Carey, Ed Garland, Jimmie Noone (succeeded by Barney Bigard), Kid Ory, Bud Scott and Zutty Singleton. Renamed Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, the group then made a significant series of recordings on the Crescent Records label. Wilson played with Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band until 1948. Failing health led him to quit Ory's group, and he died of pneumonia in 1949."
"started the initiative to organize an ""Original Creole Ragtime Band"" to play the New Orleans style across the country. He invited players from his hometown of New Orleans, including Freddie Keppard, to join him in this enterprise. After Keppard accepted his invitation to play cornet for this band, Johnson managed to get Eddie Vinson on trombone, George Baquet on clarinet, Norwood Williams on guitar, Jimmy Palao on violin, and later Dink Johnson on drums. This group went on the Orpheum Theatre circuit out of San Francisco in 1913 as the ""Original Creole Orchestra."" In the following years, the band would"
"jazz as ""a destructive dissonance"", asking if the music ""put the sin in syncopation""and Henry van Dyke who described jazz as ""an unmitigated cacophony, a species of music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles. Chicago in 1922 in particular was attracting bands such as Joe ""King"" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band at the Lincoln Gardens, joined by Louis Armstrong on August 8, 1922, and the Austin High Gang featuring Frank Teschemacher (clarinet), Jimmy McPartland (cornet), Richard McPartland (guitar and banjo) and Lawrence ""Bud"" Freeman (saxophone) who began playing at the Friar's Inn in Chicago. Meanwhile, on the New York"
"August Darnell Thomas August Darnell Browder (born August 12, 1950), known professionally as August Darnell and under the stage name Kid Creole, is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for co-founding Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and subsequently forming and leading Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Darnell was born in The Bronx in 1950. His mother was from South Carolina with Caribbean and Italian parents and his father from Savannah, Georgia. As an adult, Thom Browder began going by his two middle names, August Darnell. Claims in some sources that he was born in Montréal in Canada, are"
"of Joe ""King"" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections. A New Orleans-based traditional revival began with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960s. Early King Oliver pieces exemplify this style of hot jazz; however, as individual performers began stepping to the front as soloists, a new form of music emerged. One of the ensemble players in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, was by far"
"influence on clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone. Early in his career Delisle often played a C clarinet, as opposed to the more common B♭; the C was used by other New Orleans clarinetists of the era, such as Alcide Nunez. In 1917, Delisle joined the reconstituted Original Creole Orchestra that included Freddie Keppard and Bill Johnson. The band had disbanded in Boston in the spring of that year but was reassembled in New York City in the fall of the same year. Delisle replaced George Baquet, who had toured with the group in vaudeville. After a short while, Delisle"
"Canray in Yasha Aginsky's 1983 film ""Cajun Visits"", and in Jean-Pierre Bruneau's 1993 film ""Louisiana Blues"", edited by Yasha Aginsky. Canray Fontenot died in 1995 at his home in Welsh, Louisiana, from cancer. Canray's music can be found on Arhoolie Records, CD 381, ""Canray Fontenot: Louisiana Hot Sauce, Creole Style"", 1993; also on Arhoolie Records, ""Les Blues de Bayou"", 1970; and also on Arhoolie Records, ""La Musique Creole"", 1983. a. Some sources say the 23rd Canray Fontenot Canray Fontenot (October 16, 1922 – July 29, 1995) was an American Creole fiddle player, who has been described as ""the greatest Creole"
"blues, jazz, and gospel. It was also often just called French music or ""le musique Creole"" known as ""la-la."" Amédé Ardoin made the first recordings of Creole music in 1928. This Creole music served as a foundation for what later became known as zydeco. Sometimes the music was performed in the Catholic Church community centers, as Creoles were mostly Catholic. Later it moved to rural dance halls and nightclubs. During World War II with the Great Migration, many French-speaking and Louisiana Creole speaking Créoles from the area around Marksville and Opelousas, Louisiana left a poor and prejudiced state for better"
"Caruso. The band continued touring successfully until the group finally broke up in 1918. According to Dave Peyton, who had been the leader of the Grand Theater Orchestra in 1915, the Original Creole Band had been so popular when the group hit Chicago that they ""were bidded for by every theatrical agency in the city."" They were so popular, in fact, that, a few years after the band dissolved, Peyton asserted that ""when they hit Broadway they were a great sensation and would be on the road today were it not for dissatisfaction among themselves and the loss of several"
"11, Towles switched to the bass at the age of 13. He performed in New Orleans through his teenage years with Gus Metcalf's Melody Jazz Band, eventually playing with a number of bands, including those of Buddie Petit, Henry ""Red"" Allen, Jack Carey, and the Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra. In 1923 he formed The Nat Towles' Creole Harmony Kings. This jazz band became one of the prominent territory bands in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. In 1925 he played bass for Fate Marable, and reformed his own band the next year. In 1934, Towles organized a band of young musicians"
"Carey took over leadership of the band which was based in Los Angeles, California through the 1930s. In March 1944 Carey rejoined Ory in an all-star band that was a leader of the West Coast revival of traditional New Orleans jazz, put together for the CBS Radio series ""The Orson Welles Almanac"". The All Star Jazz Group also included Ed Garland, Jimmie Noone (succeeded by Barney Bigard), Bud Scott, Zutty Singleton and Buster Wilson. Renamed Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, the group then made a significant series of recordings on the Crescent Records label. Carey left Ory's band in 1947"
"Original Creole Orchestra, after touring the Vaudeville circuit, gave other parts of the USA a first taste of the music that was not yet known as ""jazz"". While playing a successful engagement in New York City in 1915 the band was offered a chance to record for the Victor Talking Machine Company. This would probably have been the first jazz recording. An often repeated story says that Keppard didn't want to record because then everyone else could ""steal his stuff."" Another well known story is that he was so worried about being copied that he sometimes played with a handkerchief"
"The Creole Cats band (Paul ""Lil' Buck"" Sinegal, Bob Corritore, Danny Williams, Stan Chambers, and Oreun Joubert) to record ""92"", aptly titled after his age. ""92"" was produced by Terrance Simien, Cynthia Simien, and Tate, and was engineered by Justin Tocket and mixed/mastered by DF Audio (David Farrell). Gray has suffered from alcoholism but has been sober for many years. In 1989, his home in the Baton Rouge area was destroyed by a tornado. He is married to Rivers Gray. Together they have three children and eight grandchildren. Following surgery for a collapsed lung, Gray experienced a mild heart attack"
"Chuck Cabot Chuck Cabot ""(né"" Carlos Guillermo Cascales; 16 May 1915 Querétaro, Mexico – 27 December 2007) was an American saxophonist and big band leader. The Chuck Cabot Orchestra launched in 1937 after Cabot finished studies at the University of Southern California. His orchestra played to capacity crowds in the 1940s and 1950s in ballrooms such as Roseland in New York, the Palladium in Hollywood, and the Catalina Island Casino. Cascales was also a member of the legendary UCLA 1939 football team along with Jackie Robinson, Kenny Washington, and Woody Strode and, in the early 1940s, athletic coach at El"
"release was a Top 40-charting album which was certified gold and was nominated for a Grammy. Darnell began producing for other artists, such as Don Armando’s Second Avenue Rhumba Band and Gichy Dan’s Beachwood No.9, before adopting the name Kid Creole (adapted from the Elvis Presley film ""King Creole"") in 1980. The Kid wore zoot suits and danced onstage in a style reminiscent of films of the 1930s and 1940s, and fronted a multi-racial, multi-cultural band. The co-founders of the band were Darnell and his Savannah Band associate vibraphone player Andy Hernandez, also known as his ""trusty sidekick"" Coati Mundi."
"Orleanian and Cuban exchange, Afro-Cuban jazz of the 1940s and '50s, and the Arabic influence present in some American jazz from the 1950s and '60s. Ethno Jazz was possible thanks to a phenomenon called “globalization,” which began in the 19th century with the end of the Industrial Revolution. This brought technological development that helped connect cultures in faster and more efficient ways. Jazz benefited from this by being able to travel around the globe as recordings and performances. Examples include a New Orleans band, the “Original Creole Orchestra,” which toured Canada for the first time during the fall of 1914,"
"Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, often simply referred to as African Jazz, was a popular and extremely influential Congolese rumba (soukous) band from the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1953 in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) under Belgian colonial rule, the band was led by Joseph Kabasele Tshamala, popularly known by his stage name Le Grand Kallé. The group saw its heyday between 1958 and 1962, after which it was hit by defections by its members in 1963. It was briefly revived after 1966. African Jazz emerged from the vibrant urban culture"
"Wardell Quezergue Wardell Joseph Quezergue (; March 12, 1930 – September 6, 2011) was an American composer, arranger, record producer and bandleader, known among New Orleans musicians as the ""Creole Beethoven"". Steeped in jazz, he was an influential musician whose work shaped the sound of New Orleans rhythm and blues, funk and pop music. His role as an arranger and producer kept him out of the spotlight and enabled him to enhance the careers of many. He was a staple of the New Orleans music scene and the recipient of an honorary doctorate in music. Quezergue was born in the"
"members of the Creole Dance Orchestra from 1965). With the injection of the new arrangements, Arthy as Bandleader, also performing on the double bass and sousaphone, the PRO soon grew in popularity. The orchestra became professional in 1975. Their first LP for Transatlantic was recorded in August 1974 and released in December of that year, premiering at the Midem music fair in Cannes in 1975. The orchestra followed this by touring West Germany (where the revival movement was incredibly popular) in the Autumn of that year. The orchestra toured the United States in 1993 and 2001 (their 25th Anniversary album"
"aid in the latter's late-career musical revival. In his frail state Chico was unable to manage his own affairs, and so he began to delegate the hiring of his musicians to outside contractors. Seeing this, Arturo O'Farrill stepped in on his father's behalf and assembled what became known as the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. In 1995 he was named pianist and music director of the orchestra. In 1997 the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra began to play at Birdland each Sunday night, and when his father died in 2001 Arturo became bandleader. In 2001, Wynton Marsalis – artistic director"
"""The Louisiana Lady"" singing creole songs and dressed in creole clothing. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, she toured France in 1954. Camille Nickerson Camille Nickerson (1888–1982) was a pianist, composer, arranger, collector, and Howard University professor from 1926–1962. She was influenced by Creole folksongs of Louisiana which she arranged and sang. Educated at Oberlin College with a B.A. and M.A., she continued her studies at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. A Rosenwald Fellowship was awarded to her which allowed her to pursue graduate studies. She developed interest in folksongs in this period and collected creole songs creating her"