Another piece on the late Big Red Deb CottonMaybe she was mentioned in obits back in May
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_cea430ba-2f4d-11e7-b7bd-ab6733e78453.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
So sad. No one's really stepped into that role of documenting the second lines and I miss it.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
I do see clips on Facebook live but that's so transitory.
Maybe she was mentioned in obits back in May
Don't know, but this is the first I'm hearing of it. Really sad.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
On twitter @mattHintonPhoto (Matthew Hinton) has some pics up of the second line for Dolores Marsalis that was on the 1st I think
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
video clip too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.houstonpress.com/event/houston-international-jazz-festival-showdown-throwdown-texas-vs-louisiana-9617807
Saturday the 5th in Houston: with Hot 8 Brass Band, Bayou City Brass Band, To Be Continued Brass Band.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
Read that DJ Brice Nice lost his huge vinyl collection in the flooding that just hit New Orleans. Also, the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club has suffered damage too. For others its been even worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/it-wasnt-even-a-hurricane-but-heavy-rains-flooded-new-orleans-as-pumps-faltered/2017/08/09/b3b7506a-7d37-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_neworleans-745pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.14743ab4c43e
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 August 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
RIP Arian Macklin, sousaphone player for the Stooges, Free Agents, and Youngblood Brass Band over the years. Also Herlin Riley's nephew.
YBB put up some live tracks, proceeds go to the family: https://youngbloodbrassbandofficial.bandcamp.com/album/rip-arian-macklin
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Hot 8 video for St James Infirmary. Good stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=273&v=wg43MWpLP7g
― "Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Not exactly brass band related, but well...
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/12/irvin_mayfield_indicted_by_fed.html
WWL first reported in 2015 that federal authorities were looking into Mayfield. He's said to have steered more than $1.1 million from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation's Board to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra over two years, while serving in leadership roles on both organization's boards and taking home a six-figure paycheck from the jazz orchestra.
He's also reported to have spent thousands in donations on travel expenses the library foundation says were not connected with library business, including $18,000 in hotel expenses in New York.
According to the station, the indictment against Mayfield and his longtime artistic partner Ronald Markham included four counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice, among other charges.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/01/12/jermaine-bossier-79rs-gang-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
I've been snoozing on this Mardi Gras group the 79rs Gang
An album from 2015 and a 2017 single . On Bandcamp
https://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/dead-and-gone
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link
Some friends are heading to New Orleans this coming weekend. Any second lines or great gigs on the 3rd and 4th? Not seeing any second lines listed yet on that WWOZ Taking it to the Streets calendar.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 06:10 (six years ago) link
I'm selecting some favorite brass band recordings for a little piece, and uploading a few that aren't on Youtube. Here's a cut from what is imo the best TBC record, which is not available online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO8whcNlPII
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
good choice
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2018/03/edna_karr_marching_band_oscars_t-mobile.html
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/movies_tv/article_13caeb3e-202a-11e8-8fb8-93aadbf824ff.html
The Edna Karr High School Marching band from Algiers was featured in a new T-mobile commercial during the Oscars
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
Here's that piece w/some of my brass band picks & blurbs: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/8-tracks/8-tracks-of-new-orleans-brass-bands-with-chants/
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Great!
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
Will be in New Orleans this weekend -- Charlie Sims memorial, French Quarter Fest, playing at the Blue Nile on Saturday, second line on Sunday.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Jealous. Where is Donna these days, didn't she relocate to FL?
― No energy, only great chaos (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
She's been back in New Orleans
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Oh no, a Mother's Day incident
The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club's annual Mother's Day second-line had recently passed through the area, and one of the club's members, who declined to give his name, said the parade was ending when he heard gunshots.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/05/mothers_day_shooting_new_orlea.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
A man died and a 15-year-old girl was injured in a shooting on Mother's Day (May 13) in New Orleans, according to a news alert from the New Orleans Police Department. The shooting took place near the corner of Duplessis and Lafreniere streets, which is in the Gentilly neighborhood near Interstate 610, between Dillard University and City Park.
Police said the man, 35, died at the scene, and the girl, who suffered a graze wound to the leg, was taken to Children's Hospital where she was in good condition Sunday evening.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
again?! :(
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
So sad . Brings back memories of that other one
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
I saw New Orleans writer/professor/director Jason Berry speak some years back when the EMP Pop Conference had a New Orleans session. Dude was impressive. He's now raising funds for a movie he's making
Why do we dance for the dead? This documentary explores the complex roots of the New Orleans jazz funeral, using burial traditions as a viewfinder on the evolution of the city. Writer-director Jason Berry, a distinguished cultural historian and director of an award-winning film on the Vatican, Vows of Silence, has been researching and filming brass band funerals and musicians’ interviews, since the 1990s....Our protagonist is Original Liberty Jazz Band leader Michael White, ...As the film unfolds, we meet an array of cultural torch-bearers, like Fred Johnson of Black Men of Labor. The galvanizing Deb “Big Red“ Cotton, a Gambit Weekly blogger chronicling the second line, emerges as a powerful voice the people. Cotton throws a focus on gun violence that has beleaguered some of the parades for Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, spawned by the old benevolent society funerals. When Deb is one of the people wounded in a gang crossfire at a 2013 Mother’s Day parade, her public forgiveness of the assailants -- visiting her shooter in prison – takes the story in a powerful meditation on mercy and redemption....
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/363373377/city-of-a-million-dreams
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
Was in Houston where I saw a brass band playing on the corner outside the Houston Astros stadium. I immediately thought they might be all refugees from New Orleans. I was wrong. The Pink Sand Brass Band is predominantly made up of music majors from the Bahamas that attend Prairie View A & M, a historically Black university in Prairie View , Texas
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/obituaries/henry-butler-dead.html
New Orleans pianist who died from cancer. He also photographed Mardi Gras celebrants, street scenes and the wreckage of his Mason & Hamlin piano after Katrina; his photographs were in the traveling exhibition “Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 July 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
I like this video of the Big 6 Brass Band at a Popeyes in New Orleans. They get the employees to dance. Am following the band now on twitter, where they have tweeted and retweeted some good New Orleans stuff
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Miu90sh_9yM
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
They're the second line band to beat rn, the two sousaphone players in particular just rip.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
love it
― adam, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
Just saw a review of movie doc One Note at a Time, that includes Uncle Lionel B and Hot 8 and Irma Thomas and more. Some of it is about how the Louisiana Musicians Clinic helps New Orleans musicians. Was apparently first show in 2016 there, but is getting wider distribution now.
https://neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/2017/05/23/one-note-time-film-trailer/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 August 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
There's a documentary on Leroy Jones coming out too:http://www.theleroyjonesstory.com/https://youtu.be/iw4BKbn6k0M
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
New Youngblood covers EP too: https://open.spotify.com/album/5ICLCgbh6VBwO1VOnA7GZG?si=Zg59RI2TQaq6U_hoP8sxVg
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 27 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
That Youngblood Brass cover of Rihanna “Umbrella “ is nice if a tad too relaxed.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
Hmmm, wonder if Jordan has some fave New Orleans releases for 2018?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
Man, I wish I did, but there's been a dearth of (good) brass band albums lately. The older bands either haven't been putting out much or I haven't been feeling it, like a certain band with a UK label (sorry).
The younger bands sound amazing on the street but aren't translating that to records for the most part. Big 6 put out a mixtape, but they sounded so much better at the second line: https://soundcloud.com/user-60647372/micheal-jackson-black-or-white
TBC posted a couple of nice singles (with Kabuki on trumpet, nice to hear him again), hopefully they'll put out a record next year:https://soundcloud.com/tbc-brass-band/mbk-we-at-celebration-hall-every-wednesday-night
https://soundcloud.com/tbc-brass-band/tbc-fire-water-feat-spyboy-juwan-bordreaux
On the traditional side, I like this Mark Braud album with Herlin Riley on drums, especially this cut. None of his stuff is on streaming services but this one is on Soundcloud for some reason. https://soundcloud.com/user-618715822/trouble?in=user-618715822/sets/living-the-tradition
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
Oh and Youngblood Brass Band's new EP of covers that I posted above.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
I'm playing at this in a few weeks, apparently the first brass band-focused festival in New Orleans (can that be true?):http://https%3A//scontent.feau1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/53057849_350201285583500_8500506784417447936_n.jpg%3F_nc_cat%3D105%26_nc_ht%3Dscontent.feau1-1.fna%26oh%3Da97824dbbda4e22de657c9373a76b097%26oe%3D5D28D511
TBC, Stooges, Hot 8, Cheeky Blakk, DJ Jubilee, second line dance-off, it sounds like heaven.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
Oh well, it's this, but they haven't posted the full flyer/lineup on the site yet (just on facebook) -- http://nolabrassfest.com/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
that is a highly new orleanian website
― adam, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
haha
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 21:21 (five years ago) link
Amazing weekend, from playing at the brass band fest and seeing all the bands in one spot (+ Phil Frazier getting honored, that was emotional because he's not in the best of health), to playing a party with the Stooges BB, to the second line on Sunday.
Put some little bits up on instagram, there's a lot more on facebook etc.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 March 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Hallelujah, a new TBC Brass Band studio album -- https://open.spotify.com/album/52NjIcq4D5sNpzwPIUpV4G?si=OPC3hr1ETLyVFMNnBhe1LA
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Only tangentially related, and I'm not sure if this stuff is your thing at all, but Jordan have you caught Naughty Professor? One of my favorite discoveries at Jazzfest this year. Super talented musicians, and tight arrangements that go a lot of different places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiK3Psi1zE
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
ooooh, got to check out that new TBC album. ALso, Everytime I delve into Instagram posts, the 2nd line parade ones make me wanna get back back there
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/12/new-orleans-brass-band-arrest-police-book-store/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 July 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
Friday September 20 at Gateway Pavilion in Washington DC it’s New Orleans vs DC— Featuring Big Six Brass Band of New Orleans, and DC’s own Proper Utensils feat. Jas Funk, Black Alley, and DJ Supa Dan. Plus New Orleans and Washington cuisine.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
Oooh, I love a good battle
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link