<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> 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>
who organized the original creole orchestra in los angeles
who organized the original creole orchestra in los angeles
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson