New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

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)

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

I guess not.

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

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

awesome

ha

from an after-party on fat tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Eu8aaHlNQ

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2012/02/25/147369865/shannon-powell-new-orleans-rhythm-straight-from-the-source

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

I'm gonna go to Jazzfest first weekend (I haven't been there since 2006 I must shamefully admit)

there meaning New Orleans period, and not just jazzfest

thinking about it, since some friends/bandmates are going. honestly i'd much rather go on a random weekend for a second line.

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.

First Friday: Brass Band Throwdown feat. Behrman, Fischer, and Kate Middleton Bands (Kids Tent)

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.

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!)

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.

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.

I have not heard his recent one with Terrence Blanchard (my Dad has the cd and I keep forgetting to borrow it)

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

For those there this weekend (from Offbeat):

Sunday is one of the biggest days on the Mardi Gras Indians' calendar, when the Uptown-based Indians meet for the Super Sunday Parade. The day starts at A.L. Davis Park (Washington & LaSalle) at 11:30 a.m., and the parade starts at 1 p.m. It heads down LaSalle to Simon Bolivar, turns left on Martin Luther King Boulevard to S. Claiborne Avenue, turns left on Claiborne Avenue to Washington Avenue, turns left on Washington Avenue, and ends back at the park. The Hot 8 Brass Band and the Soul Rebels will be a part of the parade, as will the Lady Buckjumpers and the Young Men Olympian Benevolent Association. BRW, Jo "Cool" Davis, DJ Captain Charles, DJ Jubilee and more will provide entertainment at the park.

interesting that the rebels are starting to do more parades

http://d.yimg.com/ec/image/v1/release/45273183%3Bencoding%3Djpg%3Bsize%3D300%3Bfallback%3DdefaultImage

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg700/g751/g75182t7dwi.jpg

Just read in the NY Times about this movie doc at SxSw:

The brothers Bill Ross and Turner Ross brought their first feature, “45365,” to SXSW in 2009 where it won the grand jury award for best documentary feature. They returned this year with “Tchoupitoulas,” a whimsical ride through the city of New Orleans with three young boys acting as a guide. It’s a look at the the lives and places that keep the city vibrant.

“These aren’t issue based films or narratively structured films,” said Turner Ross. “We’re trying to allow people to experience something we are also experiencing. Pieces of the truth to tell a greater truth.”

The filmmakers consider New Orleans like a second home and have spent time there since they were children. They aimed to capture the childlike wonder of the city they had when they were young. “To be a kid and see New Orleans with child’s eyes, to have that kind of wonderment and illusion was like a dream. So basically, we tried to make a dream.”

The Ross brothers shot for several months before they began to see their film taking shape, namely by meeting the boys who they ended up using as their guide to the city. “We went in with a broad idea of what we hoped it would be, but we always allowed ourselves to be open to new possibilities,” said Bill Ross.