Ha, awesome.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 October 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Providence-based What Cheer Brigade helps a bandmate go out in style.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjjYlVYlhc
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 22 October 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
These guys are coming to Providence next month. Not technically a brass band, I guess. Worth seeing? Looks like a crazy show. How the hell do they pay everyone?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m9xN4Z7gUc
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 22 October 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
How about a brass band from Romania? Just learned about these guys after buying a 2-CD Rhino world music comp. Fanfare Ciocarlia does Duke Ellington's "Caravan."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7W4-DLFEA
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 22 October 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
That Romanian group has been around a bit. Someone sent me a cd of theirs a long while back. Not bad.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 October 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
From the Offbeat Magazine email:
On All Saints Day, there will be a ceremony in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 to unveil a new historical marker and the repaired iron cross on the Musicians Tomb. There will be live music, followed a second line from St. Louis No. 1 to St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 with the Ernie K-Doe Baby Dolls to Heather Twitchell's tomb, where plaques will be unveiled for Earl King and Antoinette K-Doe. The event starts at 10 a.m. and ends at noon. For more information, call 583-7309.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
i hate those funny hat brass bands (mostly when they try to play new orleans stuff). don't let me ruin your fun though, i'm a notorious brass band hater.
― this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Thursday, 27 October 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
from Offbeat:
The Louisiana State Museum and the National Park Service have collaborated to renovate the third floor of the Old U.S. Mint into a proper performance space complete with improved acoustics and recording equipment to capture oral histories and performances. The grand opening of this new jazz performance hall takes place on Saturday with an afternoon of live music. It starts at 1 p.m. outside the U.S. Mint with Treme Brass Band and then proceeds into the new hall on the third floor at 3 p.m. with trumpeter Wendell Brunious and trombonist Wendell Eugene who may be joined by surprise guest artists.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't get to see them in NOLA due to a sleepy wife, but I caught them in Providence early last month:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4gqrDjeEm8&list=UUad-xCQMJvt-oRXN86HRNAA&index=2&feature=plcphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMwvtyrFJfw&list=UUad-xCQMJvt-oRXN86HRNAA&index=1&feature=plcp
― Jazzbo, Monday, 2 January 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
Gonna try to make it out of work and through traffic in time to see the Stooges Brass Band for free from 6 to 7 pm at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. The show will be video-streamed on the K. Ctr. M. Stage website and archived as well.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Re. Hot 8 in Providence: Had a nice conversation with Bennie Pete in the adjoining lounge after the show. Told him how happy we were to see the band play after missing them in NOLA the month before, as well as how much we loved his city, etc. He was very cool and friendly. Then my stupid friend yells over to him, “Hey, the Saints suck! Patriots all the way, baby!” Bennie just backed away from us, thumbs down. What a mood-killer.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 5 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hot 8's opening for Wu Tang next week in Nola. Should be interesting to see how that goes.
― yodarman, Thursday, 5 January 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Stooges Music Group have changed members since I last saw 'em several years back. I did not recognize the (white) keyboard player. Fun show at the Kennedy Center. They didn't incorporate any current r'n'b or rap melodies though, just old-school ones. They did the Treme show theme.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4894
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=82260&source_type=B
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Soul Rebels Brass Band playing Providence Feb. 2. Seems to be a lot of NOLA musicians coming up my way lately, which is heartening.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 6 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
looks like someone's making a hot 8 documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RDjJYeXDws
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Stooges, Soul Rebels, Rebirth and Hot 8 are all touring the US East Coast
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
jordan, you gonna be around for krewe du vieux?
― adam, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
is it like this weekend? really wish i could, but i didn't get it together this year (also my folks are in town for my 30th).
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
(xpost) Soul Rebels will be here in Mpls with Galactic, with guests Corey Henry (yay) and Corey Glover (meh) in March. My interest in Galactic has waned over the years, but I may still go.
― Hawaiian mime montage (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Galactic always seem to have good guests, they've just always felt too jam-band for me
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
that cover of magalenha they just released is really, really dire
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
they suck in general but the last record had a few moments, this track in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVWDyzZCKNg
there's a good song w/ rebirth on that record but it's a little brass band 101 for this thread
― adam, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ hahaha I was JUST listening to Heart of Steel!
― Hawaiian mime montage (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.offbeat.com/2012/01/28/best-of-the-beat-2011-music-awards-the-winners/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 February 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Not New Orleans, but I am gonna go see Red Baraat tonight (Brooklyn band led by Sunny Jain that combines bhangra with New Orleans and dc go-go influences--6 horn players and 3 percussionists)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
They were fun.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
good one: http://www.youtube.com/v/VNSFZWMnomM
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
from Offbeat.com.
The Rebirth Brass Band will compete for its first Grammy on Sunday when Rebirth of New Orleans will be up for the Best Regional Roots Music Album Grammy.
By Kim WelshThe award is one of the hundred or so that will be given out during an afternoon ceremony dubbed the “pre-tel” or pre-telecast, which will stream live online at Grammy Live—the red carpet walk will be at 2 p.m. CST and the pre-tel will start at 3. Rebirth will also perform on the pre-tel, just as Trombone Shorty did last year and Terrance Simien did in 2008.
Rebirth are at the 930 Club in W. DC tonight Thursday the 9th
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
Would love to see them win.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Jazz and funk musician Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is performing on Mardi Gras, but he won’t be in his hometown of New Orleans. He’ll be at the White House.
Andrews and his Orleans Avenue band will join B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Mick Jagger and others in a performance on Tuesday for President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at a black history month event called “In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues.”
It will be shown on PBS the following week.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
x-post -I think Rebirth did win the Grammy(controversial in that it is now the Regional Roots Grammy combining the previous separate categories of Cajun/Creole zydeco, Hawaiian, Texas and more)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Polka was folded into that category too. I don't think Texas was ever a caegory, was it?
CJ Chenier on the new category:
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120216/ACADIANA04/202150356/Grammy-Awards-leave-Zydeco-at-the-curb
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I guess not.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
Gah, how many times can I fit 'category' into that post (and misspell one?)
I listened to this public radio piece on Latin jazz performers boycotting the Grammys:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/13/latin_jazz_musicians_lead_protest_against
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
if you google "pres kabacoff is a scumbag" this is at the top of the 2nd results page (from that mike davis article way upthread). <3 ILM
― adam, Sunday, 26 February 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
awesome
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
ha
from an after-party on fat tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Eu8aaHlNQ
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2012/02/25/147369865/shannon-powell-new-orleans-rhythm-straight-from-the-source
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 February 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't go see Soul Rebels/Galactic in Mpls., but here they are on NPR. I liked their cover of "I Don’t Know What It Is (But It Sure Is Funky.)"
http://www.npr.org/event/music/147154117/live-thursday-galactic-in-concert-with-the-soul-rebels
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna go to Jazzfest first weekend (I haven't been there since 2006 I must shamefully admit)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
there meaning New Orleans period, and not just jazzfest
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
thinking about it, since some friends/bandmates are going. honestly i'd much rather go on a random weekend for a second line.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Congrats curm! My last one was 2008, and I think my next trip to N.O. may be for the Stomp rather than Jazzfest, so I'll have to fest vicariously through you.
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
First Friday: Brass Band Throwdown feat. Behrman, Fischer, and Kate Middleton Bands (Kids Tent)
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I was hesitant about going (really want to go to the next P. Stomp in NO, and to the EMP thing in NYC; but since no Stomp till 2013 and next weekend's EMP music geek thing in NYC won't work for my schedule), but decided to do it after all.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Friday's got a bunch of music I would be interested in: Seun Kuti, Poncho Sanchez, Texas Tornados, Henry Gray. Saturday I would see Bobby Rush (I really dislike the tent arrangement for the blues stage, though) and Sunday I would see Lionel Ferbos (I can't believe he's still playing!)
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks. I'm gonna have to look back through this thread, the New Orleans on ILE one and elsewhere to plan for the trip--music, food, etc.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
When I saw Poncho Sanchez at JF he was at big stage #2, not in the jazz tent. I went expecting pretty standard "latin jazz," but they leaned heavy on boogaloo, James Brown and New Orleans R&B covers and it was one of the best dance parties ever. I wish I could find an album by him I love that much.
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I have not heard his recent one with Terrence Blanchard (my Dad has the cd and I keep forgetting to borrow it)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't heard that one either. Youtube doesn't have his cover of "Goin' Back Home To New Orleans" but here's a Louis Jordan tune I remember him doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMaTHr4CJSM
― On the sidelines in a trash can grumping (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link