<P> As Freddie and Louis grew older, both brothers became band leaders in their own right and became part of the competitive New Orleans jazz scene . Freddie Keppard organized the Olympia Orchestra around 1905 . This band featured Alphonse Picou on clarinet . As a Creole band, the Olympia Orchestra would have been expected to play a wide repertoire for a variety of gigs, and therefore could play "legitimate" enough to get society jobs, yet "hot" enough to get jobs at the uptown jazz halls a few years later . Louis Keppard led the Magnolia Orchestra, which became the regular band at Huntz's and Nagel's cabaret on Iberville in the District . The Magnolia Orchestra included Joe Oliver on cornet, who would later succeed Keppard's title as "King" by winning a "cutting contest" against him . </P> <P> After playing with the Olympia Orchestra, Freddie Keppard joined Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band, taking the place recently vacated by Buddy Bolden . Soon after Bolden was off the music scene, Keppard was proclaimed "King Keppard" as the city's top horn player (see: jazz royalty). This was mostly because he kept Buddy's style, which was popular but had not been recorded . Indeed, many contemporaries have testified that Keppard's playing style was the closest to Bolden's that can be found in the history of jazz recordings and can be considered a more musical and sophisticated extension of Bolden's style: rugged and forceful, clipped and more staccato, and rhythmically closer to ragtime than later New Orleans jazz . </P> <P> Sometime in either late 1911 or early 1912, bassist Bill Johnson, who had been making his career in Los Angeles, California since 1909, started the initiative to organize an "Original Creole Ragtime Band" to play the New Orleans style across the country . He invited players from his hometown of New Orleans, including Freddie Keppard, to join him in this enterprise . After Keppard accepted his invitation to play cornet for this band, Johnson managed to get Eddie Vinson on trombone, George Baquet on clarinet, Norwood Williams on guitar, Jimmy Palao on violin, and later Dink Johnson on drums . This group went on the Orpheum Theatre circuit out of San Francisco in 1913 as the "Original Creole Orchestra ." In the following years, the band would tour Chicago and New York . In their 1915 performance at the Winter Garden, for a show entitled Town Topics, the group was billed as "That Creole Band ." Thus, Freddie Keppard was among the first musicians as well as the first cornetist to take the New Orleans ensemble style outside of the city . </P> <P> Keppard, who signed one photograph of himself with a caption describing himself as the "star cornetist" of the "Creole Ragtime Band," probably considered himself the star of the Original Creole Orchestra . Although he was the youngest member of the band, he is perhaps the most well - known of all of its members and is more often mentioned in histories of jazz . This is most likely because he was one of the few members to make surviving recordings . Because of his relative fame compared to the other band members, many assume that the Creole Band was led by Keppard . There is, however, no evidence that Keppard played any major role in the organization of the band (planning tours and events, choosing songs for the repertoire, signing contracts, etc .). As such, Bill Johnson was most likely the leader of the group . </P>

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