The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band by Newhart Sally;Raeburn Bruce Boyd;
Author:Newhart, Sally;Raeburn, Bruce Boyd;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
Creole Fest, 1956. Left to right: Albert Walters (tp), âCornbreadâ Thomas (cl), Albert French (el-g) and Larry Darnell (ent). Courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University.
The Master of Ceremonies, Dr. Daddy-O (Vernon Winslow), announced a gospel song, âDown By The Riverside,â in memory of âPapaâ Celestin. Thomas took the vocals, with Albert Fernandez Walters playing a cup mute solo on trumpet. The next tune was âThatâs A Plentyâ with Sidney Brown playing a masterful string bass.
Jeanette Kimball and her piano had everyone dancing the Slow Drag to âThe Tin Roof Bluesâ and âDonât Get Funky (Cause Your Waterâs On).â Albert Walters had a long trumpet intro to the âBourbon Street Parade,â and then Eddie Pierson kept it going with long slides on his trombone.
âEh La Basâ featured Albert French playing the banjo. The youngsters, who had climbed into the oak trees, were shaking the limbs of the trees in time to the music and calling back to him in response.
The event ended with the band playing âThe Saints,â which had the crowd up on their feet, parading, dancing and jitterbugging.
An August 1957 amateur recording of Celestinâs Tuxedo Jazz Band, fronted by Eddie Pierson, at a private wedding party in New Orleans was released on the Jazz Crusade Label as a compilation album, entitled Rare CutsâWell Done, Vol. 2.
The band played at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Royal Orleans Hotel at Royal and St. Louis Streets on May 14, 1958.
Eddie Pierson died seven months later, on December 17, 1958. George French, Albertâs son, said, âPierson and the band were playing music on the sidewalk in front of Generation Hall when he just fell over dead.â
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