Freddie keppards original creole orchestra

 

Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918.

This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

The Original Creole Orchestra (aka The Creole Band, Freddie Keppard's Original Creole Orchestra) was the first New Orleans Jazz band to tour outside of the South.

In Keppard left New Orleans for good to play in California with the groundbreaking Original Creole Orchestra, a popular Vaudeville band that would.

Sometime in either late or early , bassist · In , Keppard's band performed in · Keppard, who signed one photograph of.

The “Original Creole Orchestra” disbanded in , and the players all went their separate ways.

In , he moved to Los Angeles, California with the Original Creole Orchestra and toured the United States.

The band's vaudeville routines were deeply rooted in the minstrel shows and plantation cliches of American show business in the late 19th century, but its instrumental music was central to its performance and distinctive and entrancing to audiences and reviewers.

Pioneers of Jazz reveals at long last the link between New Orleans music and the jazz phenomenon that swept America in the 1920s.

While they were the first important band from New Orleans to attain national exposure, The Creole Band has not heretofore been recognized for its unique importance. But in his monumental, careful research, jazz scholar Lawrence Gushee firmly establishes the grou