New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

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

will do

Anybody see the Wynton Marsalis hosted New Orleans event on CBS from noon to 1 pm US eastern time yesterday on Super Bowl Sunday? I missed it, but the trailer, with some brass shots, looked intriguing. Did not find the whole program yesterday online anywhere (based on a quick google search).

I recorded it but haven’t watched the whole thing yet. It actually looks like it has some real substance, though, and there’s an extended segment on Roots of Music. As an added bonus, there’s another precious moment involving that young snare drummer (I’m pretty sure it’s the same kid). He starts to introduce himself when his sticks fall to the floor. His reaction is priceless. I would love to meet that kid some day and ask for his autograph.

“In New Orleans, band is a sport,” said Gerard Howard, a McDonogh 35 graduate who founded bandhead.org, a site devoted to marching bands. “So bands have to be ready every time they leave the gates of their school. Because whoever is out there will get blown at.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/us/school-band-with-storied-past-gears-for-new-orleans-carnival.html

The New York Times
February 9, 2013
A School Band With History Crams for Carnival
By KATY RECKDAHL

I've still never been there for Mardi Gras

Fat Tuesday etc

http://www.offbeat.com/2013/03/25/rip-cyril-%E2%80%9Cbig-chief-iron-horse%E2%80%9D-green-of-black-seminoles/

Really grooved on Black Seminoles first thing in the morning last time I was at Jazzfest (before heading into the blues tent for the entire day for the Ponderosa Stomp revue.) No funk band backing (though I love that approach too) just straight up old school chants.

btw, I think stage cubes are released today for JF if anyone's going. I'm not.

No JF for me this year either. I am going to be there the week before at the New Orleans portion of the EMP Pop conference talking about current southern chitlin circuit soul on a panel (that unfortunately is at the same time as another panel that covers New Orleans brass, bounce and rap). The American Routs public radio show is having a special anniversary concert the weekend of the EMP conference.

That panel sounds cool! I've never been to French Quarter Fest, I may give that a shot some year before returning to Jazzfest. More locals, less John Mayer.

French Quarter Fest does look good

Here's the New Orleans panel at the EMP Pop Conference on the 20th of April

Mapping the Sounds of New Orleans: Bass, Bounce, Second-Lines
10:15am–11:45am

Featuring
Rebecca Snedeker
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Garnette Cadogan
Joel Dinerstein

Looking at the Jazzfest schedule: Saturday 4/27 I think I would sit in the blues tent all day for Classie Ballou, Herbert Hardesty, Lil Buck Sinegal, Deacon John, Jon Cleary, and Charles Bradley & his Extraordinaires. Wasn't familiar with the last one, he's a Daptone guy and now I REALLY want to see him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSzDYeIo_0

Saw Charles Bradley at a festival last summer. Killer set.

Great voice (although I am not always crazy about his material or his band)

x-post--- this is Saturday at Tulane (actually event goes from Thursday night to Sunday morning)

Here's the New Orleans panel at the EMP Pop Conference on the 20th of April

Mapping the Sounds of New Orleans: Bass, Bounce, Second-Lines
10:15am–11:45am

Featuring
Rebecca Snedeker
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Garnette Cadogan
Joel Dinerstein

Alas, the panel I am on, the Memphis one, is at the same time. Gonna try to get some brass bands at some point through the weekend and hit restaurants and such y'all have recommended or that I have been to in the past

http://empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference/2013/emp-pop-conference-2013-new-orleans.aspx

hmm.

new site from the saintly woman responsible for documenting almost every single second line on youtube: http://www.neworleansgoodgood.com/

Joined a 2nd line today in New Orleans. Hot 8 was great. Saw John Boutte last night at DBA and a young kid brass band sounding good on a Frenchman street corner. Friday night went to the Nick Spitzer 15th anniversary American Routes show at the Rock n Bowl with the treme Brass band, Lost Bayou Ramblers (raucous Cajun), Jon Cleary's band with guests including sax man James Rivers, guitarist Wolfman Washington, Irma Thomas, & Robert Barefootin Parker. James Andrews finished the night. Earlier saw Kermit Ruffins at his restaurant-- started off ok but then he just let amateurs come onstage and play plus a drunk Guitar Slim Jr.

x-post-- met a guy who's been taking photos at nearly every second-line. They used some of his pics in an EMP conference presentation.

Joined a 2nd line today in New Orleans. Hot 8 was great. Saw John Boutte last night at DBA and a young kid brass band sounding good on a Frenchman street corner

good work :)

http://www.offbeat.com/2013/04/17/mimis-music-suspended-pending-court-case-dj-soul-sisters-hustle-forced-move/#

What is it about people who move to New Orleans near clubs and then complain about clubs being too loud, and hire lawyers to shut 'em down?

I want to read Matt Sakakeeny's dissertation:

Dissertation: Instruments of Power: New
Orleans Brass Bands and the Politics of Performance

He used to co-produce Nick Spitzer's public radio music program "American Routes" and is now a Tulane professor and member of the band Los Poboycitos

Although I've seen their name before, the pun on pobrecito just dawned on me now.

They have a new cd out. I was busy making last-minute changes to my paper, and tired from flight down there, and thus missed their cd release party and also Dj Soul Sister's Saturday night event. Can't do it all. Glad I did see old-school New Orleans resident Hudson Marquez talk about finding professor Longhair. Plus he showed great footage of him with Snooks Eaglin from 1971

those fucking people with the mimi's lawsuit can suck dicks in hell forever.

i used to live a block from there and now live like 5 blocks away and mimi's, which is not a bar i enjoy or go to very much at all, does a really good job of making that neighborhood safer. who knew that people on the streets was an effective way to curb crime

the relentless backwards gaze that often hamstrings new orleans music is completely (COMPLETELY) fucking over reasonable progress in this city. the same NIMBY morons that do shit like sue mimi's are the same people that block redevelopment of blighted property (like this ancient abandoned boys and girls club on my block that they've successfully prevented rezoning for) or throw a fit about building a modern seven story building on a SIX LANE STATE HIGHWAY.

ok. sorry. zoning laws are the worst. post-k transplants with money to burn on $$$ marigny real estate are the worst. MOVE TO METAIRIE.

Some brass bands: http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap-brassband.html

not new orleans but should I go see Young Blood Brass Band in Paris next month?

yes!

they are my good friends and their new album is excellent.

Los Poboycitos member and Tulane Prof Matt Sakakeeny used to blog about brass bands and the Treme tv show here:

http://soundoftreme.blogspot.com/

His NO brass bands book is coming out soon

Was looking over the weekend at someone I know's Facebook news feed (she's in the music biz) and she's down in New Orleans at Jazzfest and she only posted photos from Dave Matthews and Better than Ezra stages. Ugh. Was tempted to comment and ask for brass band, old r'n'b, and zydeco and Cajun.

keith spera headline on nola.com: JOHN MAYER LETS HIS GUITAR DO THE TALKING. rip jazzfest

Although they have lame big name headliners every year (for decades). Its no different-- ok this year's are worse-- last year was Springsteen and the Beach Boys on one weekend. Some years they are better than others. Last year I happily stuck to the smaller stages for the most part. My question is that jazzfest head Quint Davis is supposed to use some of those Jazzfest bucks they make, to help aging New Orleans musicians and such. I wonder if and how he is doing that.

Anybody know why Aaron Neville did not sing with the Neville Brothers this year, whom I read performed without him at the Fest? Maybe he was on the road pushing his new solo album (although I am surprised he would shedule out of town gigs this time of year).

http://www.thewholegrittycity.com/

New Orleans brass bands movie doc in production

Cool. Just saw that the "Tchoupitoulas" movie mentioned higher up is available on iTunes. Will have to check it out.

Jazzfest bucks...to help aging New Orleans musicians

http://www.jazzandheritage.org/what-we-do/raisin-the-roof

I just found this:

According to Don Marshall, executive director of the nonprofit foundation that owns the festival, 80% of the $3 million the foundation spends annually on local programming and cultural grants comes from festival proceeds.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323528404578454791718433644.html

Beneath a Pop Skin, Jazz's Heart Beats
By LARRY BLUMENFELD

New Orleans

Snowing in Minneapolis, raining in New Orleans. Good day to listen to WWOZ. Shannon Powell right now (recorded earlier.)

http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2013/04/shannon_powell_reigns_in_glory.html

Anybody familiar with Bruce Raeburn, Director of Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University, 2009 book "New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History", U. Michigan Press? Have heard good stuff about the guy. Noticed a tweet saying he was interviewing Nicholas Payton at Jazzfest. He's a musician too (as was his dad)

I've never worked with him directly but when I was an undergrad he gave a really interesting talk about his archives work and collection stuff to a class I was in, he struck me as a dude what knows his shit.

Thanks, that seems to be the consensus

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/05/mothers_day_second-line_shooti.html

This is terrible. That Gambit writer who does a 2nd line blog that Jordan posted above, got shot and wounded at the 2nd line today.

Too many shootings in New Orleans. They have video of the shooters this time

fucked up. :(

They've identified a suspect (who has has prior arrests) but haven't found him yet

do they have any sense if the perp was aiming at anyone or just causing general mayhem

so fucked up

hard to tell from the video, but 19 folks were injured and there might have been more than 1 shooter. Due to the alleged perpetrator's lengthy prior arrest record, some online commentators are blaming judges for this guy still being on the street

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/belief/new-orleans-second-line-tradition-marred-violence

Jazz historian and New Orleans music expert Jason Berry on what happened

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-16/national/39291497_1_akein-scott-mayor-mitch-landrieu-frenchmen-street

Arrests were made