Cross-posting this here (glad to see the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund has raised some money):
Mama Digdown's Brass Band finally finished the Bill Withers tribute we recorded after he passed, it took awhile to figure out recording in our separate homes and putting a video together:https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown/videos/3043741569039500/
All proceeds go to the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund:https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/just-the-two-of-us-2
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
Alfred "Uganda" Roberts died this morning at the age of 77. Roberts first came to prominence in New Orleans music as the percussionist with Professor Longhair.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
x-post -- Nice Mama's Digdown Bill Withers tribute
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
Thank you, thank you and thank you again for your donations to the New Orleans Brass Band Relief Fund!! As part of a final push for donations to this fund, we’re bringing ya’ll a special Brass Band Blowout livestream tomorrow, June 28th at 8PM CT. We’ll be featuring six of the best of New Orleans brass: Slow Rollas Brass Band, Young Fellaz Brass Band, Young Pinstripes Brass Band, Glen David Andrews, New Orleans Nightcrawlers and Rebirth Brass Band. Tune in on the NOLA Brass Fest Facebook page
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
The above is tonight
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Another recorded-at-home track from us, inspired by hearing the Soul Rebels play it way back in the day, proceeds go to Roots of Music:
https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/outstanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tTRTb44Ro
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 August 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Nice
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/news/article_1459824c-ee25-11ea-9ad5-d7739ac95bd9.html
Junior Robertson died at 91 . He owned the bar Junior’s Place that was later called Little People’s Place.
Bass drummer “Uncle” Lionel Batiste often played the bar’s ashtrays like drums and other men would pick up the cowbell or washboard and sing along. Patrons danced to Robertson’s favorite blues records played on the jukebox or to classic hits played by DJs like Verna Mae Jones and record producer Walter Moorehead. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band played there in the mid-1970s, as did Benny Jones with his earliest incarnation of the Treme Brass Band. It was a stop for every downtown second-line parade on Sunday afternoon and the home base for the Downtowners Social Aid and Pleasure Club
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 6 September 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/gambit/music/article_7ce0bd54-0468-11eb-954b-ab712e15cd77.html
Can New Orleans clubs ( especially Black-owned ones) survive without federal aid
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
Damn, this is a funeral for TBC Brass Band's cowbell player, apparently stabbed to death :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhMkjq32hRg
(also a rare all-trombone front line, and they're crushing)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Oh no
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
Cowbell Keem was 37.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:39 (three 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 GangAn album from 2015 and a 2017 single . On Bandcamphttps://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/dead-and-gone🕸
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
have no idea how this compared to their earlier stuff, will check that out later.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
*compares
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
btw, the post I quoted is from curmudgeon, from January 2018. 49rs Gang aren’t a brass band obviously, so I’m not even sure this is the right thread to discuss them - but maybe it is, thru the NO / Mardi Gras connection? Is there a more suitable thread?
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link
damn, *79rs* Gang. I just woke up!
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
Really digging “About to Blow,” thanks!
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 24 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
Yes and “trouble” has that Mardi Gras Indian feel
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
I'm into it, I love the Indians music (especially when played by the brass bands, and a lot of brass band musicians are also involved with the Indians). It's always tough when people 'produce' this music because it's so perfect in its stripped-down form, but this record does a good job of keeping the energy and not overdoing the production. I like it a lot better than the funk band version of Indian music tbh (those Wild Tchoupitoulas records etc).
This one has musicians from Da Truth and Soul Rebels, with Derrick Tabb on snare:https://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/shot-that-signal
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/news/kermit-ruffins-takes-to-instagram-to-announce-mother-in-law-lounge-is-open-for-business/
He raised some $ via a Go-Fund Me. Club had been shut down for violating Covid restrictions
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 November 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
TBC live set on Offbeat's fb page:https://www.facebook.com/offbeatmagazine/videos/1270215096676359/
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
My band finally got it together to put (almost) all of our albums on streaming services for the first time: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2tyjfI1efzg3PyHlS6mW1d?si=Ppa8Jb0uSlukV1GNQ97s5Q
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 November 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Kinda wish I could have had a brass band at the funeral for my 90 year old Dad last week. He was always more a Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins guy though. He did always speak fondly of New Orleans and the trip he and my Mom took there, and taking a cab to Snug Harbor to see Mose Allison
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Sorry to hear about your dad. My dad's take on jazz: "They're all just making this up as they go along, right?" That was a bug, not a feature, in his world.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
When I was in my 20s my Dad sneered at the rock I was listening to, and said I didn’t like it then, I don’t like it now. But my Dad who grew up going to NYC jazz clubs in the late 1940s and 50s, ended up listening to and liking all kinds of stuff up until the day he died— Youssou NDour, Talking Heads, Eddie Palmieri and more. He and I would talk and email about them, and he loved going down YouTube rabbit holes ( although my Frank Sinatra loving Mom is/ was not quite as appreciative). I guess I am very lucky to have had that
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
He became a Rolling Stones fan too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.feedthesecondline.org/
Thinking I may donate to these folks
After the success of Feed the Front Line NOLA, the Krewe of Red Beans has joined forces with Rouses Markets, Market Umbrella (operators of the Crescent City Farmers Market), the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic & Assistance Foundation, and the Preservation Hall Foundation to form Feed the Second Line.Feed the Second Line seeks to provide food-love and employment to our culture-bearers: musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid & Pleasure Club members, artists, and other cultural figures in the New Orleans community. We pair older, more vulnerable musicians and artists with their younger counterparts to assist them with shopping for their groceries and household needs. The benefits are two-fold: providing much needed groceries for free to the venerated culture-bearers of our great city, with contactless delivery to protect them from public exposure during the pandemic, while providing employment to the younger generation losing weeks, possibly months, of paying gigs.
https://vimeo.com/457795012
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
https://tipitinas.tv/?fbclid=IwAR2dOL9iM-suPRrWwt_QYd-P7QFRYFj5za0k-5i33pjM70NSPGOsCJG90pM
Tipitina's tv website and youtube page is showing Mardi Gras brass band doc now; also Sunday Feb 14 & on Mardi Gras
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
Sat, Feb 13, 2021 Streaming Schedule (All times in Central Standard Time):10am / Bury The Hatchet11:27am / Donald Harrison11:30am / Bayou Maharajah (James Booker)1:08pm / Henry Butler (2001)1:30pm / American Patchwork: Jazz Parades (“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”)2:28pm / Tipitina’s TV Exclusive2:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey3:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)4pm / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band5:30pm / Dr. John (2004)6pm / Bury The Hatchet7:27pm / Donald Harrison7:30pm / Bayou Maharajah (James Booker)9:08pm / Henry Butler (2001)9:30pm / American Patchwork: Jazz Parades (“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”)10:28pm / Tipitina’s TV Exclusive10:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey11:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)12am / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band1:30am / Dr. John (2004)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwflNeY0HPM...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up!
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/gambit/film/article_1cdae2d0-6a44-11eb-a0b1-a337d5e58660.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twittergambit&utm_campaign=snd&fbclid=IwAR3X5CGay0G2lN8gO_KcXhm1-gFEcdaP9tUqis0iGXO7CgdKoJHZWAvSw38
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
Some great old school brass band and second line footage earlier
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
More docs today Sunday
The Tipitina's virtual film festival continues today with the following lineup, which starts at 11am central and then repeats at 5:30pm.11am Buckjumping12:07pm Anders Osborne (2020)12:30pm All On A Mardi Gras Day1:30pm Treme Brass Band (2006)2pm Tuba To Cuba3:24pm Tipitina’s.TV Exclusive: Float Houses!3:30pm Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music5:14pm The Wild Magnolias (2004)5:30pm Buckjumping6:37pm Anders Osborne (2020)7pm All On A Mardi Gras Day8pm Treme Brass Band (2006)8:30pm Tuba To Cuba9:54pm Tipitina’s.TV Exclusive: Float Houses!10pm Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music11:44pm The Wild Magnolias (2004)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 February 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link
Buckjumping is really good, even if there's very brass band content to speak of (they use studio records over the second line footage for some reason). Good slice-of-live interviews & footage (w/out narration) of Mardi Gras Indian practice, marching bands, bounce nights, etc.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 February 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
Thanks so much for the heads-up re: the Tipitina's doc fest! I just passed the link on to my dad, since him and I have been to both New Orleans and Havana together and I figured he'd especially get a lot out of it.
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Monday, 15 February 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
They are showing some of the docs again on Tuesday the 16th. I saw some of all of Bury the Hatchet, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, the Rebirth doc, All on a Mardi Gras Day, & Tuna to Cuba and have enjoyed and learned a lot.
Have previously seen the James Booker Bayou Maharajah one, and Up from the Streets. Both worth seeing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 February 2021 05:16 (three years ago) link
I've seen the James Booker & Rebirth docs, both good. Would like to catch that Treme Brass Band one.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
Sometimes get curious about old school network news and just saw on NBC News a short closing story about people decorating their homes as floats this year with Mardi Gras parades cancelled. Lester Holt didn’t say their name, but that was Treme Brass playing outside someone’s home .
I saw a bit of the Treme doc but not all.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
my old neighbor did her house up real big. nightmare person but admire the effort:
https://i.imgur.com/GtaRtxj.jpg
― adam, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
watching bury the hatchet now, really good, thanks for the tip on this. looking forward to leaving it on all day
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Haha xp
Happy Mardi Gras, I'm doing a livestream with a New Orleans jazz group tonight (the first one I've done this whole time) - https://www.facebook.com/events/417556152682606/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
This year the organization has announced the creation of “The Wolf Fund,” in honor of the recent loss of the community’s late and beloved Keith “Wolf” Anderson, to to address the financial need to find a final resting place for our musicians. The Save Our Brass Foundation is committed to raising funds to insure musicians’ families do not bare the financial burden during their time of loss.
Tickets also benefit classes that teach the youth of the community how to play brass instruments.
The livestreamed event will take place March 13 via Facebook (see below for the full roster and line-up
March 13 with Big 6, Pinettes, Mama Digdown video and more
https://www.offbeat.com/news/shamarr-allen-erica-falls-more-to-perform-in-save-our-brass-event/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 March 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
https://fb.me/e/46HzZMLt4
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 March 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
NOLA Brass Fest is virtual this year:
https://www.whereyat.com/second-line-at-home-for-this-years-brass-festhttps://www.facebook.com/events/801239793764081https://events.com/r/en_US/tickets/new-orleans-original-brass-fest-800497
$5 :)
Should be some good live performances, and we're submitting a video from when we played Tipitina's almost exactly a year ago, with music from the album of Michael Jackson arrangements that we're *finally* actually finishing (after a decade, lol).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
It's a great organization to support btw
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/60-minutes-to-profile-st-augustine-marching-100-band-on-sundays-broadcast/289-364bf439-4b9d-4e0c-af68-041db2e351c7
St Augustine High in New Orleans Marching 100 band will be on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday March 14 at 7 et
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 06:18 (three years ago) link
Brass Fest happening now:https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/videos/263377655319746
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
Thanks, send some $ too
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I sent some I mean
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link