[Dixielandjazz] Duke Dejan New Orleans Jazz Legend Obit

[thompson]

Nice write up although someone must have not been acquainted with the facts.

Being born in 1909, Mr. Dejan would have been 8 years old when Storyville
closed. (Mahagany Hall included!) AND besides, the bands played in the bars
and not the brothels.

King Oliver played in the Olympia Brass Band BEFORE he left New Orleans to
go to Chicago.  This states that Duke Dejan started the band in 1951.

Rebecca
Flower Mound, TX


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 Better late than never. here is Duke Dejan's obit from the New York
> Times. He passed on July 5.
>
>
> August 12, 2002 - New York Times
>
> Duke Dejan, a Jazz Player True to New Orleans, Dies at 93
>
>
> So in 1951 he started his own brass band, which became the Olympia in
> 1959.
>
> He was born into a Creole family of 10 children on Feb. 4, 1909, in New
> Orleans.
>
> He was fascinated with the music scene in Storyville, the city's red
> light district. (Prostitution was then legal.) He would occasionally sit
> in with his brother Leo in Manny Perez's Imperial Brass Band, which
> included the young Louis Armstrong.
>
> Mr. Dejan's career blossomed. He played at the fabled Basin Street
> brothel Mahogany Hall,