Young Tuxedo Brass Band
The Young Tuxedo Brass Band is a brass band in New Orleans that was founded in 1938 by clarinetist John Casimir (1898–1963). From the 1940s onwards, they helped revive 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 Papa Celestin's older Tuxedo Brass Band , after which they named themselves as a younger band . In 1954 they played at Papa Celestin's funeral.
Usually nine to eleven musicians play in it: 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 they played in the White House on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival . In 1975 they recorded with Paul McCartney in New Orleans. They play regularly at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival .
After the death of Casimir in 1963, his cousin Wilbert Tilman, the sousaphone player of the band, was the director for a short time, but for health reasons he was still in 1963 with the clarinetist and saxophonist Andrew Morgan (1901-1972). After his death, the saxophonist Herman Sherman (1923-1984) was the conductor and then the trumpeter Gregg Stafford . Under Sherman they toured in the US and beyond in Europe.
Discographic 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)
Web links
- Young Tuxedo Brass Band at Allmusic (English)