Camelia Brass Band
The Camelia Brass Band (also in sit-down variation the Camelia Dance Orchestra) was a New Orleans-style brass band, founded by Wooden Joe Nicholas around 1917 or 1918 in New Orleans.
The Camelia Brass Band was named after a
as members.In the 1920s, D'Jalma Thomas Garnier took leadership of the group, and thereafter made appearances both under its own name and under Ganier's name. The original spelling of the French Creole family name contains the "r": Garnier, and his descendants maintain that original spelling. For the sake of correct pronunciation, however, D'Jalma Garnier (Ganier) left out the "r" to facilitate the correct French pronunciation, which is used today whether there is an "r" in the name or not.[1] Garnier is the grandfather of zydeco/Cajun musician, composer, and pedestrian scholar D'Jalma Garnier III.
D'Jalma Thomas Garnier, the bandleader, played trumpet, piano, and violin. He is rumored to have taught Louis Armstrong at the New Orleans Boys Home for Colored Waifs.[2]
References
- ^ R.H. Knowles, Fallen Heroes:A History of New Orleans Brass Bands, 1996
- ISBN 0-8264-6933-7
- Schafer/Kernfeld, "Camelia Brass Band". Grove Jazzonline.
- R.H. Knowles, Fallen Heroes:A History of New Orleans Brass Bands, 1996, p. 120.
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