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Biography
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The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
Effective period / Period of releases: 1968 - 1974
Members: Walter Payton, William Russell, Lars Edegran, Orange Kellin, Lionel Ferbos, John Robichaux, Paul Crawford (3), Josiah "Cie" Frazier, James Prevost
Founded in 1967 by Lars Edegran to perform rediscovered orchestrations of Ragtime music, the material coming chiefly from Tulane University's Archive of New Orleans Jazz. Besides jazz pieces and the rags, they also performed cakewalks like Creole belles, marches, blues.