New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

Sorry, I know this is not brass band related at all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpfXVmFVAjY

i'm not at all revivalist/preservationist about it - i like musicians who play new orleans jazz as a living and evolving tradition, with chops and style (and free of irony/self-consciousness, i guess). favorites: leroy jones, mark braud, kid chocolate, shannon powell, bob french, herlin riley, wendell brunious, etc.

the record that derrick shezbie (kabuki) made when he was a teenager, "spodie's back", is really a touchstone for me in terms of combining new orleans tradition w/modern jazz. i wish there was more music like it.

Yeah, Spodie's Back is beautiful. I spin that on the regular.

nice.

here's a little clip of my new orleans jazz band, we do a lot of spodie's back and leroy arrangements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gboNA2l7Wfk

(or did, haven't played since our main spot shut down)

vaughan's is dark b/c bright lighting would disturb the roaches

when i worked there i was always amazed that people would get like dressed up and go there. it's filthy. i certainly never cleaned anything.

corey plays circles around kermit these days and he actually shows up every now and then.

ha

Yeah, we got to the door at Vaughan's Thursday and they said "Kermit is out of town." (This, after I checked the listings multiple times.) We were really disappointed at first but decided to stay. I liked the vibe and was pleasantly surprised to find that the tourists (i.e. me) hadn't taken it over completely. Looked like a 50/50 mix between locals and out-of-towners. The band was great, too. Corey is amazing indeed — he clearly has better chops than Kermit. I guess Kermit's got the personality, though.
Jordan, thanks for the recommendations. There seems to be a million of these trad jazz bands around, but I never know who to listen to.
On a side note, I was amazed by how great the street bands with horns SOUNDED. If they had buildings in front and in back of them, the sonics were crystal clear.
Shit, New Orleans has ruined me for near everything else.

Wow Jordan, your band sounds great. Which one are you?

drums. thanks!

Here are a few songs from that "Bourbon Street All-Stars" CD (the disc was unfortunately damaged, so this is all I could download). Don't know any of the names. They make a reference to TBC in the first track, which is a short intro.

http://www.mediafire.com/?y1ocy1mpw5uu339
http://www.mediafire.com/?jh63g0ay5ozj880
http://www.mediafire.com/?moiivv7kr9t9kdx
http://www.mediafire.com/?2nz088bz9zqui5j

Shit, I just learned that one of those songs is "What's My Name" by the Hot 8. Did they just make a comp of several different brass bands?

haha, yup. two are from tbc's record, the other two are from hot 8's record. that's new orleans.

Anyone see this doc?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trewtfZYV04

i have it, it's not bad. i wish there was more playing, and also i heard that they might have gotten back together post-katrina sooner if it wasn't for the doc being made, but whatever. also tbc sound way better now than when it was made. still glad it exists.

opening for rebirth on wednesday, i'm hoping madison represents with a decent crowd.

Good luck Jordan! Wish I could go to that gig.
Never mentioned that the Hot 8 gig I mentioned earlier turned out to be a bust. We waited around forever before the band showed (Howlin’ Wolf listed them going on at 9:30, which did sound suspiciously early to me). My wife was exhausted and they were still setting up at 11:30, so we took off.
I was very disappointed, but I just learned that they’re playing a new club in Providence, RI in early December. We’re there.

that sucks. when i was last there they started reasonably on time, but their snare drummer couldn't make it for family reasons and i ended up playing tambourine for the set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKzFCg8R9Q

Ha, awesome.

Providence-based What Cheer Brigade helps a bandmate go out in style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjjYlVYlhc

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

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

That Romanian group has been around a bit. Someone sent me a cd of theirs a long while back. Not bad.

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.

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.

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.

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=plcp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMwvtyrFJfw&list=UUad-xCQMJvt-oRXN86HRNAA&index=1&feature=plcp

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.

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.

Hot 8's opening for Wu Tang next week in Nola. Should be interesting to see how that goes.

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

Soul Rebels Brass Band playing Providence Feb. 2. Seems to be a lot of NOLA musicians coming up my way lately, which is heartening.

looks like someone's making a hot 8 documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RDjJYeXDws

Stooges, Soul Rebels, Rebirth and Hot 8 are all touring the US East Coast

jordan, you gonna be around for krewe du vieux?

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).

(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.

Galactic always seem to have good guests, they've just always felt too jam-band for me

that cover of magalenha they just released is really, really dire

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

^^^ hahaha I was JUST listening to Heart of Steel!

http://www.offbeat.com/2012/01/28/best-of-the-beat-2011-music-awards-the-winners/

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)

They were fun.

good one: http://www.youtube.com/v/VNSFZWMnomM

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 Welsh
The 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

Would love to see them win.

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.

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)