The Eagle Band was a very important band in the history of Jazz. When Buddy Bolden went insane in 1907, Frankie Dusen took over Buddy Bolden’s Band and renamed it the Eagle Band after the Eagle Saloon at Perdido and South Rampart Street in the Storyville district of New Orleans.  The band was very popular in New Orleans between 1907 and 1917 and reportedly continued to play much of the same repertoire as when Bolden was the leader of the group. Many of the musicians that passed through the Eagle Band in the Teens would become the chief proponents of Hot Jazz during the 1920s. The band made no recordings, but the Eagle Band was the link between the dawn of Jazz as represented by Buddy Bolden and the cultural phenomenon that jazz would become during the 1920s. Sidney Bechet remembered the band this way, “The Eagle Band was much more of a barrelhouse band, a real gutbucket band, a low down band which really played the blues, and those slow tempos. To tell the true the Eagle Band was the only band that could play the blues. That was really a band”. |
| Artist | Instrument |
| Sidney Bechet | Clarinet |
| Peter Bocage | Trumpet, Guitar |
| Walter Brundy | Drums |
| Jack Carey | Trombone |
| Tig Chambers | Trumpet |
| Edward Clem | Trumpet |
| Baby Dodds | Drums |
| Johnny Dodds | Clarinet |
| Frankie Dusen | Trombone, Leader |
| Chinee Foster | Drums |
| Pops Foster | Bass |
| Ed Garland | Bass |
| Tubby Hall | Drums |
| Bill Johnson | Bass |
| Bunk Johnson | Trumpet |
| Joe Johnson | Trumpet |
| Frank Keelin | Trumpet |
| Freddie Keppard | Trumpet |
| Brock Mumford | Guitar |
| Big Eye Nelson | Clarinet |
| King Oliver | Trumpet |
| Richard Payne | Guitar |
| John Penerton | Trumpet |
| Dandy Lewis | Bass |
| Frank Lewis | Clarinet |
| Dandy Lewis | Bass |
| Bob Lyons | Bass |
| Big Eye Louis Nelson | Clarinet |
| Willie Parker | Clarinet |
| Buddie Petit | Trumpet |
| Lorenzo Staulz | Guitar |
| Cliff Stones | Guitar |
| Lorenzo Tio, Jr. | Clarinet |
| Wild Ned | Trumpet |
| Henry Zeno | Drums |
Redhotjazz.com was a pioneering website during the "Information wants to be Free" era of the 1990s. In that spirit we are recovering the lost data from the now defunct site and sharing it with you.
Most of the music in the archive is in the form of MP3s hosted on Archive.org or the French servers of Jazz-on-line.com where this music is all in the public domain.
Files unavailable from those sources we host ourselves. They were made from original 78 RPM records in the hands of private collectors in the 1990s who contributed to the original redhotjazz.com. They were hosted as .ra files originally and we have converted them into the more modern MP3 format. They are of inferior quality to what is available commercially and are intended for reference purposes only. In some cases a Real Audio (.ra) file from Archive.org will download. Don't be scared! Those files will play in many music programs, but not Windows Media Player.
