http://www.offbeat.com/2012/07/31/glen-david-andrews-faces-attempted-murder-charge/?utm_source=WB+08+30+12&utm_campaign=Weekly+Beat+8%2F30%2F12&utm_medium=email
Glen's got some issues
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 August 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr5ye3WErWs
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 30 August 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Nice. Do you have more bandmembers than a few years ago?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 August 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Alison Fensterstock @AlisonF_NOLAThere was a mother hen with storm-ruffled feathers walking on St Claude with chicks & I wish the mobile network worked enough to post a pic
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 August 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
like most brass bands it varies from gig to gig, but we had add extra trumpet there and a few long-time crew members on aux perc.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 30 August 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford, New Orleans rhythm & blues singer of 'Jock-A-Mo,' dies at 77Published: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 10:02 AM Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune By Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune
James “Sugar Boy” Crawford, the New Orleans rhythm & blues singer who wrote and recorded the enduring Mardi Gras season standard “Jock-A-Mo,” died early Saturday after a brief illness. He was 77.
“Jock-A-Mo” borrowed its lyrics from age-old Mardi Gras Indian chants. It was later remade by the Dixie Cups as “Iko Iko.” Artists as diverse as Dr. John, the Grateful Dead and Cyndi Lauper also recorded variations.
Mr. Crawford’s own career came to a premature end following a police beating in 1963. Only in recent years did he return to the stage, and then only occasionally.
Dubbed “Sugar Boy” as a child, Mr. Crawford grew up around LaSalle Street. He played trombone while attending Booker T. Washington High School. He also formed a rhythm & blues band that deejay Dr. Daddy-O dubbed the Chapaka Shawee, after one of the band's instrumentals. The group performed in local clubs and released a single on Aladdin Records.
Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records, happened to hear the Chapaka Shawee at radio station WMRY while in New Orleans. He made what was purportedly an audition tape of the group.
“The man paid me $5, and I went and bought some wine and red beans,” Mr. Crawford recalled for The Times-Picayune’s Sheila Stroup this spring.
Weeks later, a disc jockey at the station presented Crawford with a 78 rpm record of “I Don't Know What I’ll Do.” It was manufactured from the audition tape and credited to Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters.
In November 1953, at age 19, Mr. Crawford recorded his composition “Jock-A-Mo” at Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studio on North Rampart Street, with a band that included Snooks Eaglin on guitar. He did not know what the lyrics meant.
“It was just a couple of Indian chants I put together and made a song out of them,” he said.
In a 2002 interview with OffBeat magazine, Mr. Crawford said he actually sang "Chock-a-Mo." But Leonard Chess, listening to the recording in Chicago, heard "Jock-A-Mo" and dubbed that as the title.
Released on the Chess subsidiary Checker Records, "Jock-A-Mo" was a hit during the 1954 Carnival season and a boon to Mr. Crawford’s career. He became popular on the fraternity circuit at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and toured around the country, even though he was too young to perform in venues where alcohol was served.
“I was so young, they had to send my money home to my people,” he said. "They had to stop serving liquor when I performed."
Over the next decade, he recorded for various labels, including Imperial Records, releasing such singles as "I Bowed on My Knees,” “You Gave Me Love,” "Morning Star" and "She's Gotta Wobble (When She Walks)."
But in 1963, his career, and life, took a tragic turn. En route to a show in Monroe with his band, he was stopped by police and badly pistol-whipped.
"The sheriff in Columbia called ahead, and they had a roadblock set up for me,” he recalled. "It was the time of the Freedom Riders, and the police jumped on me and cracked my skull."
The beating left Mr. Crawford in a coma. A metal plate replaced part of his badly damaged skull. When he awoke, he had lost much of his memory. “I had a brain injury, and it took me two years to come back,” he said. “I had to learn how to walk, talk, play the piano, everything.
“I don't have to hear people talk about those times. I lived them.”
He briefly attempted a comeback, but was discouraged by what he perceived as his diminished talent. He subsequently retired from rhythm & blues. For decades, he confined his singing to the church.
He went to trade school and became a building engineer. For several years he maintained the Masonic Temple building on St. Charles Avenue. Later, he owned and operated C&C Locksmith, and lived in Gentilly. After sorting out the publishing rights to his old catalog, he earned royalties whenever "Jock-A-Mo" or one of its derivatives turned up in movies or commercials, such as when the Belle Stars’ recording of “Iko Iko" appeared on the "Rain Man" soundtrack.
It was his grandson, the pianist and singer Davell Crawford, who coaxed Mr. Crawford out of retirement. He appeared on Davell’s 1995 CD “Let Them Talk,” and subsequently joined his grandson onstage, including at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
In recent years, those appearances became more frequent. Mr. Crawford guested with gospel singer Jo “Cool” Davis as recently as the 2012 Jazz Fest.
Mr. Crawford also taped scenes with Davell for an episode of the upcoming third season of HBO’s “Treme.”
"Jock-A-Mo," both the song and the phrase, is ingrained in the local consciousness. Dr. John, who originally recorded the song for his 1972 album "Dr. John's Gumbo," performed it during halftime of the 2008 NBA Allstar Game in New Orleans. The Abita Brewing Company named one of its beers Jockamo IPA.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Staff writer Sheila Stroup contributed to this obituary.
© 2012 NOLA.com. All rights reserved.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 September 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q30RRaG_6cQ
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Nice call on "Overboard," that song is such a barnburner.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 September 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Arriving in NOLA Friday — can’t wait! I’ll be at the corner of Canal and Bourbon that night. Also have Rebirth at the Maple Leaf and maybe the Stooges (Congo Square on Thursday) on our go-see list. Can’t decide where to see Kermit, however: Blue Nile, Bullet’s, his own Speakeasy or Vaughan’s?
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm guessing you're having fun, and flipped a coin to decide where to see Kermit.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Read this elsewhere (have not listened yet myself)
In case you missed the American Routes program featuring nightclubs in NOLA (first hour) and selections from Festival Acadiens et Creoles (second hour), here's a link: http://americanroutes.wwno.org/archives/show/764/from-home-page#.UFngwv6N4m0.facebook
This week on American Routes, we bring you music from the festival stage and the clubs of South Louisiana. We visit some of our favorite nighttime musical haunts in New Orleans and spend time with guitar man Ernie Vincent and jazz historian Bruce Raeburn. Then, allons a Lafayette for the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles, south Louisiana's annual celebration of Cajun and Creole music, food and culture. We'll hear classic performances from the early days of the festival, talk with founder and scholar Barry Ancelet and sample some of the sights and sounds from the festival grounds.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2012/09/hbos_treme_renewed_for_a_fourt.html
HBO's 'Treme' renewed for a fourth and final seasonPublished: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 6:46 PM Updated: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 8:31 PMBy Dave Walker, The Times-Picayune
HBO's Treme Season 3 Premiere for Cast and Crew
On the eve of “Treme’s” third-season premiere, the HBO drama’s cast and crew learned that there will be a fourth season, albeit abbreviated. Series co-creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer made the announcement at a screening for production participants Saturday (Sept. 22) at the Joy Theater.
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― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, I totally missed that Sugarboy Crawford passed on. RIP. My band covers "Overboard," but there's no way we can match the chaotic, just on the edge of falling apart vibe.
― The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Monday, 24 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Reading the Offbest Mag email I see that (NYC based I think)onetime University of New Orleans student Jamison Ross, won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Drums Competition at the Kennedy Center in DC.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 September 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
Leaving NOLA for home today. We got to see the Treme Brass Band and Rebirth, the latter of which surprised everyone by playing a short set after Kermit at his Speakeasy. But the best were the Stooges, playing in Armstrong Park last night. I'll post a couple of vids when we get home.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 28 September 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
one of the best bands i saw while in NOLA this past april was the to be continued brass band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKyxrG2QwI
really dynamic and fun band.
i was amazed that even though NOLA has a tonne of little record companies, and NOLA music is fairly marketable outside the city, many of the brass bands don't have much of an online presence with their music.
― borntohula, Saturday, 29 September 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
Treme Brass Band at d.b.a. this week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1wdIvUHiGE&list=UUad-xCQMJvt-oRXN86HRNAA&index=1&feature=plcp
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 29 September 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
Here's The Stooges Brass Band breaking into some Stevie Wonder when they played the "Jazz in the Park" series on Sept. 27, 2012 at Louis Armstrong Park. They were incredible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz9E9YUXOs0&feature=relmfu
― Jazzbo, Monday, 1 October 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Finally, Kermit Ruffins playing "Iko Iko" at his Speakeasy in the Treme. He cooked us some rabbit, then played his ass off. One of the friendliest groups of music-lovers I've had the pleasure of being around.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchwNRPP6yM&list=UUad-xCQMJvt-oRXN86HRNAA&index=4&feature=plcp
― Jazzbo, Monday, 1 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
stooges do the stage band (drumkit/keyboards/etc) thing better than anyone else i've seen, but i'd still rather hear them in full brass band mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grgEgb4CcDE
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Monday, 1 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
appropos of nothing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKt7le98CEQ
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Monday, 1 October 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
was amazed that even though NOLA has a tonne of little record companies, and NOLA music is fairly marketable outside the city, many of the brass bands don't have much of an online presence with their music.
― borntohula, Saturday, September 29, 2012
I wonder if they're tweeting.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
From Offbeat editorial re the City's attempts to shut down clubs because of solitary complaints. This is about a place I confess to not knowing about:
Mimi’s in the Marigny, which has presented live music on Royal and Franklin for 10 years, was closed by co-owner Mimi Dykes because of her fear she was out of compliance with city permits regarding noise—this, despite the fact the bar uses noise-deadening window treatments at Mimi’s Upstairs, where live music plays and DJs (notably Soul Sister) work regularly. Mimi also has regular noise decibel readings to make sure she’s in compliance.
Dykes went back to business as usual only to get in hot water again after last weekend, when a neighbor complained about the loud noise coming from Mimi’s at 1 a.m. Interestingly, Mimi’s Upstairs shuts down its music at midnight, so live music and DJs got a bad rap from the neighbors because the noise didn’t come from live music. It apparently came from a jukebox downstairs. There were also “party buses” in the neighborhood that evening—is she supposed to manage street traffic too?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 October 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
Stooges are touring the East Coast next month. I’m going to see them Nov. 3 in Providence.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.stoogesmusicgroup.com/news#
Cool. Election night the 6th in Baltimore, and in DC on the 7th.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Assuming they'll be using the stage band setup for the tour. http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/10/stooges_brass_band_mixes_it_up.html
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 20 October 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
Can't vouch for their excellence vs other brass bands (they just played well-worn standards), but Pair-O-Dice Tumblers Brass Band was fun to second line with during the Art for Art's sake Krewe of the Living Dead zombie crawl.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8328/8105406773_ba63f1e443_z.jpg20121006-079-zombie_walk_DxO by Sanpaku1, on Flickr
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Saturday, 20 October 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
Ooopsie.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8105454012_fc6fd58930.jpg20121006-079-zombie_walk_DxO by Sanpaku1, on Flickr
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
From a Basin Street Records press email:
Rebirth Brass Band opening 8 shows for the Red Hot Chili Peppers Nov 14-26
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Ned Sublette will be speaking in New Orleans tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 30) evening at 6:30 at Tulane's Jones Hall, room 100A, on "Kongo Belief Past and Present." On Thursday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. in the Iberville Room of the Astor Crowne Plaza, he will be part of a panel at the American Musicological Society conference titled "Moving Roots of Music: The Many Worlds within New Orleans."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 October 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/11/bob_french_to_receive_low-ley.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 November 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
And, per Mr. French’s instructions, there will be no official second-line jazz funeral.
oh shit. cranky and contrary to the end.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 15 November 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
i put some of my favorite cuts from my favorite Bob French record (which, sadly, appears to be out of print and hard to find?) on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZP0QTDDoY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKXEhl4KK0
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 15 November 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Offbeat Magazine 2012 poll nominees:
14.
Best Brass Band
Hot 8 Brass Band Pinettes Brass Band Rebirth Brass Band The Soul Rebels Stooges Brass Band
15.
Best Brass Band Album
Mainline Brass Band - Mainline Brass Band On My Way - New Birth Brass Band The Life and Times - The Hot 8 Brass Band Twenty Dozen - Dirty Dozen Brass Band Unlock Your Mind - The Soul Rebels
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
x-post--finally listened to those Bob French cuts. Nice! RIP
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Who's going to watch these kids in the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1? Heard the Roots of Music kids rehearse above us while we were touring the Cabildo in September. Rebirth Brass Band drummer Derrick Tabb deserves much props for founding this organization.http://noladefender.com/content/ro56ots-m1usic-headed-rose-bowl
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 29 December 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen 'em yet. But I did see on CNN late last night a reporter covering a New Orleans New Year's event-- I saw a white folks brass band doing the "Treme" show theme with an African-American dancer; and better than that--Dr. Michael White playing clarinet with a snare drummer.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Dang, I was out of town mid-November and totally missed news of Bob French's passing. Seeing him at Donna's Bar ranks among my best N.O. memories. RIP.
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
what good is going on in nola this week? my brother's there for a short while and i think things have changed quite a bit since i was there in 2010. i'd love to be able to recommend him some music especially brass bands.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
First off, tell him to head to the corner of Bourbon and Canal Fridday night for the weekly brass band jam. Rebirth plays the Maple Leaf on Tuesdays, Hot 8 is at Howlin’ Wolf on Jan. 6, Treme Brass Band is at dba Jan. 8. Not a brass band, but I highly recommend Kermit Ruffins’ Treme Speakeasy on Sunday and Monday nights. Get there early for dinner and then Kermit will play a couple of sets (and you’ll be home at a decent hour). Some great trad jazz bands also play for tips on Royal Street and there’s always someone good playing at the Spotted Cat, Blue Nile, Hi-Ho Lounge, Chickie Wah Wah, etc. Course, Preservation Hall should be experienced at least once. John Boutte’s a must-see, too, but I’m not sure if he has any gigs in the city this week.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
rad, thanks jazzbo.
― wmlynch, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
from Offbeat:
"I can't sing like I used to sing, but I'm-a try one more thing," sang Bo Dollis Sr. before the launching into the chorus of "Hey Now Baby (One More Time)" during a December 18 session at Nola Recording Studios in Mid-City.
The recording will make its way onto Bo Dollis Jr.'s debut record as a leader, scheduled for release at Jazz Fest 2013. "Hey Now Baby" also marks the first time that Bo Dollis Sr. and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux have recorded together in over a decade.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
and more from Offbeat-- but not a lot of brass in the top 25. Soul Rebels at 7
http://www.offbeat.com/2013/01/01/offbeat-top-50-louisiana-albums-2012/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
which is like the most boring soul rebels record ever, but hey.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
some serious folklore here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMSvDaO_jA&list=PLyLPqhafxEWdHO8MTf5y7BNd1cBHgNLWj
part 6 is the dopest one for derrick tabb being derrick tabb
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Not brass band but...
Christian Scott Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord)
This New Orleans release is showing up on lots of best jazz 2012 lists.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 January 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
We keep hijacking Jordan's brass band thread for general N.O. doings, but here's this year's Jazzfest schedule. A chance to see Fleetwood Mac for a lot less $ than elsewhere.
http://lineup.nojazzfest.com/
And a lot of shit I don't care about.
― I like sex, don't steal my hot dog! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
more non-brass news:
from nola.com
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former Mayor Ray Nagin with 21 counts of corruption, alleging that while in office, Nagin took cash bribes and gifts from three city contractors and used his power as mayor to leverage a granite installation contract from Home Depot as the retailer was building a store in Central City. Despite New Orleans' reputation for political shenanigans, Nagin is the first mayor in the city's history to be indicted by a grand jury on corruption charges.
Ironically, Nagin, 56, a Democrat, was elected in 2002 largely on the strength of his promise to reform a City Hall that was widely perceived as a den of cronyism under Nagin's predecessor, Marc Morial. His administration began with denunciations of municipal corruption and a crackdown on the beleaguered city's Taxicab Bureau, including arrests of numerous cabbies -- one of them the mayor's cousin -- and the head of that department.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
The Soul Rebels will perform as the house band throughout "2nd Annual NFL Honors" - a two hour primetime awards special saluting the best players, performances and plays from the 2012 NFL season to air nationally on Saturday February 2, 9-11 p.m. (ET) on CBS.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Derrick Tabb's Roots of Music needs some views on this video before midnight tonight in order to make money from StubHub. I could watch an endless loop of the little kid playing snare at the start.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SNl4F5mXRqo
― Jazzbo, Sunday, 3 February 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link