THE LEGACY
OF BOOKER T.
GLASS

PRESERVING THE MUSIC, HISTORY AND LEGACY OF NEW ORLEANS

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Historic New Orleans brass band artwork featuring Booker T. Glass

THE LEGACY NEW ORLEANS • MUSIC • HISTORY

THE BOOKER T. GLASS FOUNDATION

The Booker T. Glass Foundation

Harold J. Wilson and Parris Lane of Parold Entertainment Inc. founded the Booker T. Glass Foundation to create, inspire, educate, and celebrate the life and legacy of New Orleans legendary Band leader and Bass Drummer, Booker T. Glass, as well as the true New Orleans Culture of Brass Band and 2nd lining, so that future generations will have an opportunity to learn, participate in programs, workshops, and stories to keep the tradition alive. Its mission includes supporting musicians, jazz education, performances, and programming.

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THE BOOKER T. GLASS FOUNDATION

Preserving
A Legacy
For
Generations

Booker T. Glass Brass Band, aka "BTG Brass Band," is a traditional New Orleans brass band that consists of Grammy Award-winning musicians from New Orleans as well as musicians from San Francisco's Twilight Brass Band.

As a bass drummer-percussionist and entertainer, "Homeboy" was born and raised in the Historical Tremé, 6th Ward, New Orleans, and has a legacy deeply tied to keeping the New Orleans tradition alive. The fifth-generation Brass Band Performer, "Homeboy," is the great-grandson of Henry Booker T. Glass, one of the last musicians whose development pre-dated the Dixieland style of the early 1900s. As a pioneer of New Orleans' Traditional Brass Band music, Glass was an innovator who consolidated extraordinary talent that comprised the best New Orleans Musicians of that time.

Booker T. Glass organized the first Black Musicians Union for Preservation Hall. As an incredibly powerful bass drummer and bandleader, he performed with New Orleanians such as Louis Armstrong and Mahalia Jackson.

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BOOKER T. GLASS • MUSIC