Original Tuxedo Rag

Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra (Papa Celestin) · 1925 · Séance Okeh du 23 janvier 1925 à La Nouvelle-Orléans

Context

Recorded in New Orleans on January 23, 1925 for Okeh (8215), this track is credited to the Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra led by Papa Celestin. The orchestra took its name from the Tuxedo Dance Hall, whose orchestra Celestin had taken over around 1910.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to New Orleans jazz, New Orleans. Among the origins and influences of New Orleans jazz: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Afro-diasporic roots, Ragtime, New Orleans.

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Papa Celestin

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