seattle and new york brass band: https://thewesterliesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wherein-lies-the-good
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
A 2019 movie doc called Up From the Streets , that purports to cover all of New Orleans music history is gonna show at a DC indie doc fest in March. Terrence Blanchard is the narrator.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/new-orleans-black-bars-second-lines.html?referringSource=articleShare
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
Don’t usually agree with them but here’s Offbeat magazine’s best of 2019 that includes Soul Rebels “Poetry in Motion” album as their best brass band winner. Rebels also won for best video
http://www.offbeat.com/news/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2019-best-of-the-beat-music-awards/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 February 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Two weekends in a row of second lines and seeing all the bands, it was amazing, too much to say. NOLA Brass Fest was a really beautiful event this year.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9c2M_qFq7A/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MWHD0EI_YQhttps://www.instagram.com/p/B9ccxGPn_TO/https://www.instagram.com/p/B9dU5Z6DiXH/https://www.instagram.com/p/B9c8NR8H8Qx/
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I am jealous
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
not really brass band but this video is amazing, people don't believe me when i try to tell them what high school marching bands sound like in new orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFsuy9kOf3M
― adam, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
that video rules
― na (NA), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
Nice. Btw Adam, we closed out Saturday night at Vaughan's, Mickey (who used to bartend at Donna's for years) was behind the bar, and the owner lady says hi to you.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
aw that's sweet, i hope yall had a good time!
― adam, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_785f2510-6d49-11ea-b521-6f07f4be4785.html
Phil Frazier of Rebirth Brass has coronavirus. Virus Has spread a lot in New Orleans area
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
Ronald Lewis , 9th Ward founder of House of Dance & Virus died at 68 from the coronavirus. Also New Orleans bounce dj Black n Mild (Oliver Stokes) died at 44
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 March 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Phil just can't catch a break. :(
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Putting this here because no one else will care: a few months ago I picked up a $1.99 copy of Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton (on Verve, 1997) and man I love this. It helps that I saw Doc at Jazzfest around that time, but it’s a super lovely mix of ballads and swingin’ tunes, with my new favorite version of “Stardust.” I’ve returned to it again and again. Best two bucks spent recently.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Friday, 27 March 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link
That sounds great
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 March 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
I didn’t know there’s a Grammy for best jazz solo, but Doc won it in 1998 for his solo on “Stardust.”
https://youtu.be/cUK_wkCuRp4
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
Soothing music for troubling times.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
Saw DJ Soul Sister retweet that Ropeman has died. He held the ropes in many New Orleans second lines
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
Club d.b.a. for sale. Sealed bids only . C’mon folks . One of us has to win the lottery and then we can all own it
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_016d7bca-73b4-11ea-8840-ff4e857333d4.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
Aw, man... depressing.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
DBA was such a godsend when it opened, one of the few places to get a craft brew when Abita was pretty much the only game in town. I consumed many Anchor Liberty Ales there. I agree, Frenchmen Street is a much crazier place than it was twenty years ago, but I hope they can continue.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
Damn. Ellis Marsalis at 85 . RIP
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
wow. RIP
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
Oh, no! RIP. He closed out last year in the jazz tent at Fest with all his sons, but I didn’t go. Opted for Al Green.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
Complications from Corona. Fuck.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
No second lines allowed now.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-orleans-brass-band-musicians-relief-fund
RIP Ellis, never did get to see him play.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/zulu-coronavirus-deaths/289-4b03058c-87e5-46eb-b7ed-79965609f1f4
Zulu hit hard
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
On a lighter note, someone got Derrick "Kabuki" Shezbie to record a Buddy Bolden-themed trad album (his first solo record in 26 years):
https://youtu.be/0-_9YPzP2PQ
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Contrast with this gem where he's all of 13:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-KFKcP41GE
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
Thanks.
Can I get a late pass for just starting to follow on Instagram @polonolaphotography and @akasharabut
Photographers
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 April 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-new-orleans-musicians/2020/04/09/fd5e2f84-774b-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
Stafford Agee, trombone player for the Rebirth Brass Band — which received a Grammy for Best Regional Roots Album in 2011 — said that while he was able to ride out March on his savings, now he’s worried how he’ll pay the bills and support his four children.“My ‘riding out’ is done,” he said. “I’m rode out. … We’re in another month now.”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
The article notes Agee in the past has done contractor and electrical work to pay bills but he isn’t getting that kind of business now either. The article does say that Phil F of Rebirth is feeling better.
Also from W Post article:
Three days a week on the sidewalk outside his closed club, Howlin’ Wolf, Kaplan distributes a couple hundred takeout containers of food to musicians and hospitality workers.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
Here's another article on Phil Frazier re how he survived 2 strokes and now Covid-19
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_11dbff9a-7b48-11ea-b406-5b09e696d81f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=nolafb&utm_campaign=snd&fbclid=IwAR3yvgY2u5GASlcid20tk-wCej0l8rYIWlWCoeiAADyhGxelAHbOstHSUI0
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link
WWOZ is doing virtual French Quarter Fest (and will do virtual Jazzfest the next two weeks.) Some great in-studio performance video so far: Pinettes Brass Band, John 'Papa' Gros backed by Naughty Professor, and Honey Island Swamp Band.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
I listened to some of the WWOZ Jazzfest in place. Irma sounded great. I missed some brass bands. Will have to check the archives.
More sad news: Big Al Carson, blues singer On bourbon street and was also a tuba player with some trad brass bands at 66. Photo on link is old. He reportedly had lost a bunch of weight.
https://www.wwoz.org/blog/640101
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― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 April 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Cross-posting this here (glad to see the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund has raised some money):
Mama Digdown's Brass Band finally finished the Bill Withers tribute we recorded after he passed, it took awhile to figure out recording in our separate homes and putting a video together:https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown/videos/3043741569039500/
All proceeds go to the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund:https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/just-the-two-of-us-2
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
Alfred "Uganda" Roberts died this morning at the age of 77. Roberts first came to prominence in New Orleans music as the percussionist with Professor Longhair.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
x-post -- Nice Mama's Digdown Bill Withers tribute
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
Thank you, thank you and thank you again for your donations to the New Orleans Brass Band Relief Fund!! As part of a final push for donations to this fund, we’re bringing ya’ll a special Brass Band Blowout livestream tomorrow, June 28th at 8PM CT. We’ll be featuring six of the best of New Orleans brass: Slow Rollas Brass Band, Young Fellaz Brass Band, Young Pinstripes Brass Band, Glen David Andrews, New Orleans Nightcrawlers and Rebirth Brass Band. Tune in on the NOLA Brass Fest Facebook page
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
The above is tonight
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Another recorded-at-home track from us, inspired by hearing the Soul Rebels play it way back in the day, proceeds go to Roots of Music:
https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/outstanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tTRTb44Ro
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 August 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Nice
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/news/article_1459824c-ee25-11ea-9ad5-d7739ac95bd9.html
Junior Robertson died at 91 . He owned the bar Junior’s Place that was later called Little People’s Place.
Bass drummer “Uncle” Lionel Batiste often played the bar’s ashtrays like drums and other men would pick up the cowbell or washboard and sing along. Patrons danced to Robertson’s favorite blues records played on the jukebox or to classic hits played by DJs like Verna Mae Jones and record producer Walter Moorehead. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band played there in the mid-1970s, as did Benny Jones with his earliest incarnation of the Treme Brass Band. It was a stop for every downtown second-line parade on Sunday afternoon and the home base for the Downtowners Social Aid and Pleasure Club
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 6 September 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/gambit/music/article_7ce0bd54-0468-11eb-954b-ab712e15cd77.html
Can New Orleans clubs ( especially Black-owned ones) survive without federal aid
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
Damn, this is a funeral for TBC Brass Band's cowbell player, apparently stabbed to death :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhMkjq32hRg
(also a rare all-trombone front line, and they're crushing)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Oh no
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
Cowbell Keem was 37.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/01/12/jermaine-bossier-79rs-gang-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview🕸/I've been snoozing on this Mardi Gras group the 79rs GangAn album from 2015 and a 2017 single . On Bandcamphttps://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/dead-and-gone🕸
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link