Re: Hi all... I'm looking for Baquet's too!!!
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Hi all... I'm looking for Baquet's too!!!
Debbi Edmondson 8/22/02
Hi Deb,
I really enjoyed your posting of my grandfather Achille's picture. I have seen it on the redhotjazz site before. I am probaly the last person to hear music from him with his clarinet.I had to be less than seven years old. Achille was very well known and in recent years a professor from Indiana University came to California to interview his children, [my father and siblings]intending to learn more about him.
We know that Achille's father was Theogene [sp?]but have no knowledge of previous family members. To our knowledge no pictures of Theogene exist. He is known to have led a well known New Orleans funeral band the likes of which led to the music form today known as jazz. His sons Achille andGeorge are known to have been amongst the creators of jazz.Theogene had two families with children at the same time in the French quarter.
We have often wondered about the first Baquet relative to have come from France. Could this have been Camille ?
Send me an E- mail direct if you wish to [email protected]
Thanks,
Bill
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Re: Hi all... I'm looking for Baquet's too!!!
Debbi Edmondson 9/24/03