Oscar 'Papa' Celestin plays "Tiger Rag" in "Cinerama Holiday"

Born in 1884, "Papa" Celestin was active in New Orleans music before it was known as jazz. He was famous for being a visually entertaining bandleader. This clip was made near the end of his life, when the New Orleans Jazz revival gave his carrer a late lift. It is taken from the film "Cinerama Holiday", released in 1955, made to demonstrate the possibilities of a sort of surround vision cinema system.

http://www.redhotjazz.com/papa.html
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=5615
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Celestin

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• Cinerama
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• Tiger
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• Orchestra

[yvesfrancois]

Hello, thanks for sharing this, this is unbelievable!! this was recorded in 1953 and the personnel is: OSCAR CELESTIN et RICARD ALEXIS tp; EDDIE PEARSON tb; JOSEPH "CORNBREAD" THOMAS clt; ADOLPHE ALEXANDER as; EMANUEL PAUL ts (who became a mainstay of the great KID THOMAS band); JEANETTE KIMBALL pno; ALBERT FRENCH bjo; SIDNEY BROWN bass et LOUIS BARBARIN dms - this is AMAZING - LOVE it!!! 5 stars, how about 5000!

[busessuck1]

@jslasher1 fuck copyright

...this music is everybody's

[kingoliver45]

This is so strange to me! I always thought of Celestin to be really serious and to see him kidding around like this is weird as hell. Cool but shocking. Love it!!!

[kingoliver45]

@busessuck1 Amen

[jslasher1]

@chesniere Not possible. That would constitute copyright infringement.

[cinemascoper]

They need to restore this movie in Bluray!!!

[knulla08]

Marvelous to see this here. It's actually not the same version as the 45" record. Louis Barbarin was tops (Earl Palmer's teacher) THANKS!

[twntube]

Fyi, that *might* be a "C-Melody" sax, sometimes known as a "C-Tenor" sax, that that E. Paul is playing. It looks a little small for a regular tenor sax in B-flat.

[chesniere]

amazing

could you post the rest of the movie ?

[trapsfx]

Thank you for posting this - I love the music of New Orleans, but never seen this. Great! Any idea who the players are?