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The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band:: More than a Century of a New Orleans Icon

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In 1910, the Tuxedo Jazz Band played its first show on the Tuxedo Dance Hall in Storyville under Oscar Celestin. The preferred ensemble went on to play everywhere New Orleans, in addition to around the South and the nation. In 1953, it turned into the first jazz band to play the White House. The band has punctuated jazz history and produced one of the crucial most memorable musicians of the past century: Bob French, Albert French, William Ridgley, Octave Crosby, Louis Armstrong and more. Creator Sally Newhart has written a definitive and captivating history of the band from inception to offer, including oral histories, archival photos, discography and a in the past unpublished complete list of members since 1910.

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