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Drummer Louis Cottrell, Sr. used the John Robichaux and Olympia Orchestras in the first 1900s in New Orleans before shifting to Chicago in 1915 with Manuel Perez’s music group. Cottrell spent his old age back New Orleans playing and documenting using a.J. Piron’s orchestra. He’s acknowledged with presenting the press …

Like a lot of famous New Orleans music artists, Louis Cottrell Jr. got a music pedigree. His dad was an excellent drummer in the town when jazz didn’t even yet possess a name. Created in to the elegant and sophisticated Creole tradition, younger Cottrell was raised encircled by musical experts …