― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 01:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― charlie va, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 02:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
I can't go without mentioned the (however unlikely) on the level Wisconsin brass band scene, Mama Digdown's and Youngblood. I'm sure I've hyped up Youngblood on other threads, but they really are something these days, the new Def Jux album will be tight. It wasn't until after I started listening to a lot of other brass band music that I realized how unique their sound is, clean and precise instead of greasy and raucous (both are great in their way of course).
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 02:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― charlie va, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Speaking of which, what about brass bands from neither New Orleans nor Wisconsin?
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 03:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
The parallel in Minneapolis (where I live) is the Jack Brass Band. I'm all for this kind of thing, but these groups are to Rebirth what Antibalas is to Fela.
I lived in New Orleans for a year and my favorite Rebirth album is still Take It To the Street. Ex-Rebirth member Kermit Ruffins has his own band which is pretty great, too. I find Dirty Dozen boring on CD and in concert, sorry.
My favorite Rebirth story was seeing the guys perform in the bywater one night when members of the Afghan Whigs were in the audience, then seeing the band again in the Zulu parade the next morning. Turns out Rebirth had literally performed all night and went straight to the parade without rest. A float got stuck on a tree, and Rebirth were still energetic enough to challenge a high school band to a battle while the parade stood still. Guess who won.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 September 2002 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
I still listen to 'New Orleans Album' quite regularly, but it's the only one I've got.
I don't suppose anyone's heard the new one (Medicated Magic)?
― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've been listening non-stop to the New Birth Brass Band record, it is HOT SHIT. Totally on Rebirth's level or more so, and it's probably the most spontaneous, live sounding studio album I've ever heard.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
or was it not so brass band-y?
― JasonD (JasonD), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Recommend me some New Orleans funeral jazz, please!
And I know this is rockist of me, but the older and more authentic, the better..
thanx
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Other than that, just go to Louisiana Music Factory and check out anything by Treme Brass Band (the most well-known band playing in a really trad style that's still around) or Dejan's Olympia Brass Band.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll send you a mix if you want to e-mail me, I'm always happy to spread the gospel. Also my brass band should be playing at the Green Mill again in the next couple months.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vornado (Vornado), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I really hope their 20th anniversary show dvd comes out, the show was sort of a mess but Cheeky Blakk came out and did Pop That Pussy for 15 minutes, humping trombone cases, Kabuki riding on her back, etc. :>
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, remind me! I've missed you guys a few times now!
― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
New Birth Brass Band, D-BoyRebirth Brass Band, Hot VenomStooges Brass Band, It's About TimeSoul Rebels Brass Band, No More ParadesLil' Rascals Brass Band, Buck It Like a Horse
Also a word about Derrick 'Kabuki' Shezbie - he's the main trumpet player for Rebirth, and he was in New Birth as a teenager (he's all over D-Boy). He's SO MUCH LOUDER than any trumpet player I've ever heard, not to mention the fire. His sound is completely wide-open and really sums up the brass band sound for me (he takes the solo on the Rebirth tune I posted above).
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
HOWEVER, yeah, they take marching band pretty seriously down south and a lot of those kids have incredible chops. We were standing outside of Tipatina's during a parade last Mardi Gras and this high school trumpet line came by blowing high F's and we were like WHAT?! I think that a huge majority of New Orleans brass band musicians came up in those bands and always check them out during parade season, etc.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
I am also interested in Jordan's mix.
― adam (adam), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
But still go to Donna's and the Maple Leaf and Le Bon Temps and Cafe Brasil!
most of which are hosting jam bands anyway)
Oh god this is so horribly OTM.
Send me your address.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Friday, 26 November 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link
In Tower Records I noticed in the new Downbeat magazine a nice article on New Orleans brass bands and more. The Stooges Brass band, Hot 8, and Soul Rebels are all here. I haven't checked to see if the article is online.
As a contributing supporter of afropop.org I get a weekly e-mail thing from them. This week they have a nice photo-essay by Ned Sublette(musician, musicologist and author of that immense book on Cuban music) on New Orleans. Sublette is living there for awhile and studying the Caribbean roots of New Orleans. He's got an interview with Donald Harrison and some others. I think you can check it all out at afropop.org
― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I think one was called Yarl River Blues Band.
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 March 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 March 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll be going down to Jazzfest the first weekend to play with Mama Digdown's and see brass bands, can't wait.
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 27 March 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
From the April issue excerpt on Downbeat's website:
Next Generation New Orleans Brass BandsBrass Beyond The Streets
By Jennifer Odell
Philip Frazier honks his sousaphone on a chilly January Sunday on the corner of Daneel and 3rd streets. Musicians start to shuffle away from the crowd milling outside the Bean Brothers Bar and strap on horns and snare drums, ready to get their roll on. Dancers for the Undefeated Dicas Social Aid and Pleasure Club come around the corner and tubas, sousaphones, saxophones and bass drums fall in line as the Divas belt out The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There.”
Winding past Mary’s Nightowl Bar, Candlelight Bar, Sandpiper and The New Look, the parading community group hits all of the Uptown neighborhood’s brass band stops. Ostrich plumes fan the air above the Divas in time with Frazier’s non-stop vamps. When the dancers slow down and form a circle, trading moves with kids, the band plays even harder, echoing braay swueals off the projects across the street. This is how brass band music was born.
But it’s growing up. And while playing the second lines and funerals remains important, many of today’s hottest brass players are concentrating more on polishing their CDs and getting national recognition than on stealing the show on Sunday afternoons. The current generation is following the successful business model created by the Dirty Dozen and Rebirth brass bands; updating a traditional sound to make the music relevant to a larger audience. And with each step forward, another cross-breed of the brass band sound is born. Mardi Gras Indian bands like Big Sam’s Funky Nation are based in funk, the Soul Rebels are purveyors of hip-hop and the Hot 8, New Birth and the Stooges hold down the street scene with their bebop-heavy takes on the traditional style.
― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
MARDI GRAS 2005: a photo essay by Ned SubletteAlso Check out Interviews with Joseph Roach, Donald Harrison, and Vicki Mayer by Ned Sublette
― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― imbidimts, Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
nice 2011 footage there
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 July 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
“You fall into it” is how the choreographer and educator Michelle N. Gibson, who grew up in New Orleans, put it in a recent interview. “Nobody teaches second line.”
Except that Gibson does teach it, or her take on it. She teaches some of the history in her one-woman show, “Takin’ It to the Roots,” which she is bringing to the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the Berkshires, on July 29-30. For the past few years, she has also been giving second line classes: workshops called New Orleans Original BuckShop in which she presents what she dubs her “second line aesthetic.”
Gibson is careful to specify that what she teaches is her own second line aesthetic, “based on my training and how I want to share it,” not second line as New Orleans natives like herself experience it. “You can’t expect to have that,” she said. “You have to live it.” She said that she sees herself as an intermediary between her New Orleans community and academia, inserting herself into conversations about New Orleans culture and insisting on “reverence to the origins and the people it actually belongs to.”
For the Jacob’s Pillow performances, Gibson is converting “Takin’ It to the Roots,” originally designed for theaters, into processional form: Audience members will follow her to sites around the campus that represent Congo Square and the Black church. The second line at the performance’s end is standard, though. “I always take people out of the theater into the streets,” she said. “There’s not going to be a show that you attend with Mz. G that we’re not going to eventually go outside.”
There will of course be a brass band with her, the NOJO 7, drawn from the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/arts/dance/michelle-gibson-second-line-jacobs-pillow.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20220723&instance_id=67495&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=37355772&segment_id=99428&user_id=062566bcd9872d3bfa0c4b1ac1e046b4
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 July 2022 04:25 (one year ago) link
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_4cceb0b6-1e3e-11ed-ba03-57a0d74e293c.html
Music industry vets buy Chickie Wah Wah, embark on extensive renovation of Canal St. venueThey hope to reopen the club by October. Say they will book roots music and jazz
Will they book New Orleans brass bands
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 August 2022 13:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/night-time-economy/
Offbeat editor on changes New Orleans should make to improve the city for bands and the public
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
This was a solid Hot 8 lineup and set (with great sound, as far as filmed brass band sets go)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlpjRV4cwBk
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
Really vibing on this Rebirth show from 2013 too, when Kabuki and Derrick Tabb were still in the lineup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKx54uxFX-o
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
I'll be playing a brass band festival in Asheville NC next weekend, looking forward hearing sets from Da Truth BB and Big Sam.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
Cool.
September 24 in New Orleans Red Bull Brass band competition w/
The four competing brass bands are Kings of Brass, Big 6 Brass Band, Sporty’s, and Young Pinstripe Brass Band.Southern hip hop artists Treety, Alfred Banks, Stone Cold Jzzle, and $leazyEZ will also perform with the brass bands.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
here are a few highlights from Feed The Second Line. This year we were able to cover over $65,000 worth of groceries for elder culture bearers - ensuring food security amidst rising prices . . . This has been part of the safety-net since COVID began…. We also helped with a few situations: such as funerals, medical costs, and even a lighting-strike on Charmaine’s house…. The value of a safety-net in action!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 December 2022 02:15 (one year ago) link
Wolfman' Washington's funeral was a celebration: 'You’ve got to do it up for Walter'Irma Thomas, Deacon John sang; second-line briefly closed blocks of Canal and N. Carrollton
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
the celebrations here used to happen organically: the trombone player trotting out of his house to join a second-line brass; the masking Mardi Gras Indians readying their feathers in back rooms and backyards; the ladies pulling out their parasols to join in the processions.
As a kid, Amy Stelly would watch revelers zigzag from one Black-owned bar to the next, up and down the streets of Tremé. It was the unofficial, year-round parade route. A community’s well-worn path for celebrating all types of joys and losses.
“Now there aren’t enough left to do that,” Stelly, 65, said as she surveyed the remains of a once-bustling commercial corridor.
The bars have nearly all vanished. Families who for generations could trace their lineage to the same streets have sold their homes. Others were evicted.
“Once upon a time, that was Tremé Market,” Stelly said, pointing. She turned, squinted, then pointed up again. “That used to be a lounge. Black-owned, of course. Now ….” She paused, her voice trailing off.
Today when a second line gathers to mourn the loss of a community member, it takes effort and planning for the musicians and artists, families and friends to make their way back to the old neighborhood. Parked cars crowd under the interstate overpass as people pour out of their vehicles instead of their homes. Many of the families Stelly used to know, she said, have left New Orleans for the suburbs, exurbs or another state altogether.
Spurred on by climate catastrophes, new development and a booming short-term rental industry, gentrification has remade the Big Easy and displaced thousands of Black families, a population that has been shrinking for more than 20 years.
In a city where the very culture is bound to African American tradition, the threat of erasure extends beyond the physical.
“Cultural annihilation is very real here,” said Cheryl Robichaux Austin, 68, executive director of the Greater Tremé Consortium, a neighborhood-based advocacy and community equity nonprofit. “It’s slowly decaying, and we see it … every day in the neighborhood. We see it when the city has special events and we don’t see Black bands, how there are all these White folks playing in the second line now. Things you never used to see before.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/us-city-white-population-increase/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F390d53e%2F63e135bb1b79c61f877e7a15%2F5977ec549bbc0f6826c7a143%2F25%2F74%2F63e135bb1b79c61f877e7a15&wp_cu=d9f43e4379b7ee197738c3d4698832e7%7C9575ce4e-105e-11e0-a478-1231380f446b
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 04:37 (one year ago) link
Any good recent brass band footage for Mardi Gras that’s not in an IG story or Tik Tok?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
A history of second lines at Jazz Fest article
https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/streets-fairgrounds-social-aid-and-pleasure-clubs-carry-second-line
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 March 2023 14:51 (eleven months ago) link
The state of schools and marching bands and changes since New Orleans got so many charter schools rather than going to neighborhood ones
https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/keeping-beat-past-glories-and-present-challenges-new-orleans-marching-bands
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 March 2023 15:36 (eleven months ago) link
Sporty's Brass Band IG live clips continue to wow me
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 April 2023 17:55 (eleven months ago) link
I was at one of those nights at Bullet's bar and the energy was insane.
Hearing that Jeffrey Hills (tuba player on Lil Rascals 'Buck It Like a Horse', frequent sub for Rebirth and everyone else) passed away???
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2023 18:43 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah just saw that on Facebook. So sad
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 04:20 (eleven months ago) link
They rolled today for Mr. Jeffery Hills pic.twitter.com/DhVjmBpgZv— Shawniece👑🐝 (@ShawnieceQB) April 11, 2023
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 April 2023 04:25 (eleven months ago) link
Come out tomorrow y’all pic.twitter.com/DLP5oVOsK6— Shawniece👑🐝 (@ShawnieceQB) April 13, 2023
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 April 2023 04:27 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLx4dxurbdQ
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:23 (eleven months ago) link
Truly some all-stars out there - Derrick Tabb, Corey Henry, Eric Gordon, Chad Honore, Terrence Andrews, Stafford Agee, etc
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 April 2023 14:27 (eleven months ago) link
Great to hear all those Lil' Rascals tunes done with the original drummers & Corey Henry in the lineup. Damn.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 April 2023 16:01 (eleven months ago) link
Did I spot Donna Poniatowski, or just someone who looks like her?
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:05 (eleven months ago) link
Yep, that was her! Got some pics of the second line from her too.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:07 (eleven months ago) link
Cool! Good to see her.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:16 (eleven months ago) link
Seeing on Facebook that 97 year old Peter Chuck Badie who played bass with a who's who of r'n'b greats has passed away.
Here's a 2017 article that touches on some of his accomplishments
https://louisarmstrongjazzcamp.com/news-events/events/scholarship-fundraiser/peter-chuck-badie-receives-the-jazz-pioneer-award-at-the-noachc-2017-scholarship-fundraiser/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:14 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugOhN0YObr4
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2023 21:23 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/music/new-breed-brass-band-made-in-new-orleans-525-worldwide/
A review of album by New Breed Brass Band
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 04:19 (eleven months ago) link
Old-school me was hoping to see website news obits for New Orleans music greats Jeffrey Hills , Sr and for Peter Chuck Badie. But I never did.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 04:23 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/drumming-for-treme-brass-band-or-driving-his-famous-orange-truck-benny-jones-sr-is/article_cec1bfe2-e9da-11ed-ac1c-db40cc19cc0e.html
Long profile of percussionist Benny Jones Sr
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 May 2023 20:37 (ten months ago) link
So Nola.com gave New Orleans bass player legend Peter Chuck Badie this standard obit. He played with Dave Bartholomew r’n’b sessions in the 50s and on Sam Cooke “A Change is Gonna Come” plus with Lionel Hampton, and more.
https://obits.nola.com/us/obituaries/nola/name/peter-badie-obituary?id=51734149
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 May 2023 13:14 (ten months ago) link
Heard some Alabama brass band on that American Routes show that sounded good
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 May 2023 18:17 (ten months ago) link
Melissa A. Weber (a.k.a. Soul Sister), D.J. and scholar“Right Foot” by Rebirth Brass Band
A special characteristic of New Orleans jazz is its function as dance music. It invites audience members to not spectate, but participate. In the New Orleans brass band jazz tradition, the pioneering Rebirth Brass Band has specialized in making people dance since the group formed 40 years ago, while its founding members were teenagers. In 2008, they rerecorded their original song “Put Your Right Foot Forward,” first released in the mid-1980s as a 45 on the local SYLA label. It’s a classic that other brass bands have added to their repertoires, whether on the stage or in the second-line streets. (Listen on YouTube)
From https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/arts/music/new-orleans-jazz-music.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 June 2023 18:31 (nine months ago) link
YIL that "Didn't He Ramble" was written about a goat.
https://syncopatedtimes.com/the-curious-history-of-oh-didnt-he-ramble/
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 June 2023 18:58 (nine months ago) link
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/new-orleans-drummer-russell-batiste-jrs-st-aug-funeral/article_8655a294-67b3-11ee-a45b-c34a8115590e.html
Russell Batiste jr , New Orleans drummer Dead at 57 from a heart attack.
For four decades, he was a stalwart of the New Orleans music community. In the late 1980s he applied his powerhouse style to a latter incarnation of the Meters, then spent years with that band’s successor, the Funky Meters.
Batiste also powered George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners, Dumpstaphunk, Bonerama, Papa Grows Funk, the Wild Magnolias, the Joe Krown Trio and his own Orkestra from da Hood and Russell Batiste & Friends.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:31 (five months ago) link
Yeah, I saw that the other day, sad. Younger than I am.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:51 (five months ago) link
RIP.
I thought he played on a couple tracks on Maceo Parker's Southern Exposure record, then realized that was Herman Ernest III, who died in 2011 at age 59. :(
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:31 (five months ago) link
Every Grammy Awards nominee for best Regional Roots music Album for the February 2024 Grammys is from Louisiana:
New BeginningsBuckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band
Live At The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage FestivalDwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers
Live: Orpheum Theater NolaLost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Made In New OrleansNew Breed Brass Band
Too Much To HoldNew Orleans Nightcrawlers
Live At The Maple LeafThe Rumble Featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 November 2023 20:57 (four months ago) link
I should listen to these Grammys nominees but will any of them wow me the way Sporty’s Brass Band Instagram Live’s do ?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:38 (four months ago) link
Probably not, but I do like that Buckwheat's, Rockin' Dopsie's and Monk's offspring are all carrying on the tradition.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 22:14 (four months ago) link
Yes , and the Lost Bayou Ramblers are a very creative Cajun band . Louis Michot from that group has done some cool solo stuff and the group was did nice music on the Beasts of the Southern Wild soundtrack
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 19:28 (four months ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/news/frenchmen-street-club-d-b-a-new-orleans-is-sold/
D.b.a. Club owner retiring and selling club to locals who already own other clubs
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:39 (four months ago) link
Thank god for this woman and anyone else who's uploading full second line footage, rather than IG clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paLacuoI5Iw
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:14 (two months ago) link
Yes, thanks !
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:36 (two months ago) link
St. Mary’s Academy’s skirt-wearing band first formed in 1937, making it the oldest Black girls band marching in the city. Today, it is one of just a handful of all-girl bands to regularly appear in Mardi Gras parades...This Mardi Gras season also marks the first time Raynice Crayton, 27, will be at the band’s helm. A St. Mary’s alumna who joined the band as a seventh-grader, Crayton has already more than doubled band membership during her short tenure as director..The group’s 52 players have varying levels of experience, from novices to passionate musicians, and they range in grades from fourth to 12th. In New Orleans East, where the school’s campus has been located since the 1960s, Crayton spends hours teaching girls the 10 tunes they will perform this Carnival, ranging from traditional music to a Janet Jackson song to the group’s favorite this year: “Talking in Your Sleep” by the Romantics..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/02/12/mardi-gras-girls-marching-band/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA3NzE0MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA5MDk2Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDc3MTQwMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk5OGU2NGM1LTg2NDktNDUyYS1hNTE4LWZlZTI3ZWNjOGJlZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zdHlsZS9vZi1pbnRlcmVzdC8yMDI0LzAyLzEyL21hcmRpLWdyYXMtZ2lybHMtbWFyY2hpbmctYmFuZC8ifQ.v-dFiptu0EAVbzwspUbkiE3UJD4SNps-CIPtXTNLnZs
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:04 (one month ago) link
Happy Mardi Gras!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link
Seeing sad news on Instagram that snare drummer Kerry “Fatman” Hunter was killed by a car ( reportedly a drunk driver) on North Claiborne at Pauger Monday night
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 February 2024 05:20 (one month ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/arts/music/new-orleans-rapper-flagboy-giz.html
37 years old rapper & Black masking Indian merges the 2 cultures on “We Outside “ 2022 song and newer album, and a remix project
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 February 2024 16:02 (one month ago) link
I heard that, so sad. He was never the flashiest player but had a huge and unmistakable sound, deeply rooted in the tradition. The groove on 'D-Boy' is fathoms deep. Unfortunately a lot of the best parts of New Birth Brass Band's (his main band) discography are not streaming or even on youtube, but here are some of my favorite Kerry Hunter recordings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQELLw2A_nwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=verTSC200Lshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuwGU_cB5ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUtJAsp28WQ
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 15 February 2024 16:29 (one month ago) link
I am not going to be there and so hope the Friday 1 pm pacific time Pop Con presentation by USC professor Josh D Kun on the Mexican musical legacies of New Orleans will be streamed or recorded
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 March 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link