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In 1965 Barker returned to New Orleans and took up a position as Assistant to the Curator of the New Orleans Jazz Museum . In 1972 he was approached by the pastor of the Fairview Baptist Church, who asked him to lead a church-sponsored brass band for young people; the group that resulted, the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band , became a popular New Orleans band in its own right before eventually morphing into the Dirty Dozen Brass Band . The Fairview band also launched the careers of a number of a number of professional musicians who went on to perform in both Brass Band and mainstream Jazz contexts, including Leroy Jones , Wynton and Branford Marsalis , Kirk Joseph , and Nicholas Payton . As Joe Torregano , another Fairview band alumnus, described it, "That group saved jazz for a generation in New Orleans." (Burns, 16) Barker played regularly at many New Orleans venues from the late 1960s through the early 1990s, in addition to touring. Barker published an Autobiography and many articles on New Orleans and jazz history. Barker reigned as King of Krewe Du Vieux for the 1994 New Orleans Mardi Gras season REFERENCES
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