Onward Brass Band

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

history

Professor JO Lainez was in charge from 1887 to 1898 , James MacNeil in 1898/99 and then Manuel Perez . While Perez was in Chicago in 1915/16, King Oliver and Maurice Durand led the band. In 1917, Perez temporarily disbanded the band during his second stay in Chicago.

Possibly she was one of the bands that played to entertain black troops in the Spanish-American War of 1898, with the Onward Brass Band going to Cuba.

In addition to Perez (from 1900) jazz musicians such as King Oliver, Peter Bocage , Lorenzo Tio , George Baquet and Isidore Barbarin belonged to it . On one occasion in 1922 - Eddie Vinson 's father's funeral in Algiers - Louis Armstrong also played with the band (just before he went to Chicago). In the summer the band members wore white pants and hats and blue jackets.

Established in 1955

The Onward Brass Band was re-founded in 1955 by Paul Barbarin . He led the band until 1969, then followed by Louis Cottrell , from 1978 Placide Adams and from 2003 Kurt Robert Nicewander. The band also played Louis Barbarin , Kid Howard , Jack Willis , trumpeters Ernie Cagnolatti and Albert Walters, and trombonists Louis Nelson and Wendell Eugene .

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)

literature

  • Schafer / Kinzer Onward Brass Band in: Grove Jazz (online)

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ The other band with Buddy Bolden stayed in New Orleans