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Just sticking in another vote here for the ReBirth Brass Band album that has the song on Jordan's comp -- it's called Hot Venom, and it's fantastic. It definitely deserves the parental warning sticker, though (many f-bombs; "Pop That Pussy"). Live, at least here in the North, they are much less hip-hoppy, more of an old-school soul party vibe ("Let's Do It Again / One Love" on the album is representative of that).

― Vornado (Vornado), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

True, they stuck all the street-est stuff on that one album. It also has my favorite production job of any brass band album, not to mention the four 'bone lineup.

I really hope their 20th anniversary show dvd comes out, the show was sort of a mess but Cheeky Blakk came out and did Pop That Pussy for 15 minutes, humping trombone cases, Kabuki riding on her back, etc. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I played some trumpet in school but disdained the marching band (late summer, they're getting ready for football season, marching around in the mud in red wool uniforms, ughh). Have long regretted that, but garage soul/preppy-frat rock was good."Soulfinger" and "Grazin' In The Grass" my faves. Buckinghams' "Mercy Mercy" led me back to Adderley & Zawinul's original, yclept "Mercy Mercy Mercy", and from there to other Blue Note (the cliche of jazz and pop parting ways WWII never otm). Much liked (first albums of) Electric Flag, Blood Sweat & Tears (pre Clayton Thomas), and Chicago. Now collect high school marching band records, which is among what ("lab bands, stage bands" also) gets LANGLEY SCHOOLS equiv, except for the acclaim, on SCHOOLHOUSE FUNK, compiled by Motorcycle John (AKA DJ SHADOW). From the 70s. Uneven, but amazing. Something I'd heard and thought it was the Dirty Dozen 'til I got it: David Byrne's MUSIC FOR THE KNEE PLAYS. TKP being a segment of Robert Wilson's intercontinental stage/satellite TV cycle, "the CIVIL warS" (broadcast live in sequence, but the Reagan Admin pulled plug on our part). Turns out this music was "inspired by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band." Involving old pros like Chuck Findley, Ernie Watts, Pete Christlieb, and Fred Wesley, and, even though it's got some of that one-size-fits-all ECM train station echo, here it does fit (boomin' in the gloom, and after all it's about life going on during wartime). Also Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy's AVANT POP and others; even getting to recastings of hiphop and that big parade drum for "Beautiful People, Beau'ful PeePUL" on ODYSSEY OF FUNK AND POPULAR MUSIC, his last album (which I reviewed for villagevoice.com; put your Search subject in quotes if you go there)I've always wondered about Mike Westbrook's settings of Blake, and his Drinking Gasoline review, with singer Kate Westbrook. Were those good? (Regis Brass Band is one from New Orleans I've heard live, but never knew of any records. They were really young and firey when I saw 'em.)

― don, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Also my brass band should be playing at the Green Mill again in the next couple months.

Yeah, remind me! I've missed you guys a few times now!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow Don, it sounds like you've heard a lot of stuff on the periphery of/influenced by N.O. brass band. You should jump into the real shit, I bet you'd be into it (NB: I don't really like the Dirty Dozen for the most part, and I haven't heard of Regis) --

New Birth Brass Band, D-Boy
Rebirth Brass Band, Hot Venom
Stooges Brass Band, It's About Time
Soul Rebels Brass Band, No More Parades
Lil' Rascals Brass Band, Buck It Like a Horse

Also a word about Derrick 'Kabuki' Shezbie - he's the main trumpet player for Rebirth, and he was in New Birth as a teenager (he's all over D-Boy). He's SO MUCH LOUDER than any trumpet player I've ever heard, not to mention the fire. His sound is completely wide-open and really sums up the brass band sound for me (he takes the solo on the Rebirth tune I posted above).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

What I mean to say is, he can blow eight notes on one note and suddenly every other trumpet player and every tricky run becomes irrelevant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, that David Byrne "Music for the Knee Plays" is great

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

and how great is The Ying Yang Twins new song "Halftime". are brass bands and marching bands at all related?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I shy away from the comparison just because it makes people think of their bad Midwest high school pep band and assume that they know what it's about. I'm also sick to death of people saying "oh, you guys must have been in the UW band" or "what drum corps did you march in?" when no one in the band comes from that background at all.

HOWEVER, yeah, they take marching band pretty seriously down south and a lot of those kids have incredible chops. We were standing outside of Tipatina's during a parade last Mardi Gras and this high school trumpet line came by blowing high F's and we were like WHAT?! I think that a huge majority of New Orleans brass band musicians came up in those bands and always check them out during parade season, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

jordan -- is that yr actual email addy? (I'll do a trade for a copy of that mix).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep (change gmale to gmail obv.). That sounds good Julio, I'm sure you have some stuff I'd love to hear.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan is 100% otm re: high school bands. New Orleans has like the Delta Force marching bands--all the best music during Mardi Gras can be heard by avoiding the clubs (most of which are hosting jam bands anyway) and hitting the parades further Uptown (before the kids playing are all worn out).

I am also interested in Jordan's mix.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

by avoiding the clubs

But still go to Donna's and the Maple Leaf and Le Bon Temps and Cafe Brasil!

most of which are hosting jam bands anyway)

Oh god this is so horribly OTM.

I am also interested in Jordan's mix.

Send me your address.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Le Bon Temps has the crunkest quesadillas in the city.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yas yas, that's what I like about the South. Alabama's Public TV used to broadcast an annual marching band contest, live from Bessemer High School's football field. That sound, across the stadium (and airwaves), not just horns but the drums, it moves me man. Reminds me that Bessemer is the disembarkation point of Sun Ra (and my father). As far as non-high school, don't forget Mississippi's late (and maybe last of a kind) Othar Turner. And I always suspected that those early N.O. parade bands, "soloing" in different keys simulanteously for *one* thing, were an influence on free jazz (Ornette Coleman had played in proto-R&B bands in his native Texas, and toured in a medicine show band, according to A.B. Spellman, and also lived in New Orleans in 1950 or so, when he could have heard some of those guys live, although there was no revival then, was there? And old guys don't usually have the wind to flip out, I know from my own brass, but his wife Jayne Crotez was known to have a killer collection of 78s.Think also of ASCENSION, esp. the better version, eventually relaesed with the *relatively* tamer, more familiar take. And Gary Giddins said that his Jazz History students hit a wall when they got to Air, etc. but loved Henry Threadgill's JELLY ROLLS, which I think was one of the earliest Free-to-Ur foldovers. And some of them got intoFree per se, with JR as their gateway. I was always fascinated by Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan's albums of spiritual and gospel, and notice elements of these primogen. influences in Ayler (listening to the boxset single-disc promo, for inst). Reminds me: don't know how widespread this trend is, but in the CD store where I was working last year, noticed a jazz X gospel trendette, coming from "Jazz" section *and* from gospel (and of course the latter's had crossover from Blind Boys of Alabama and Robert Randolph and the Family Band, but that's getting away from horns altogether)

― don, Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, that would be Jayne Cortez, not "Crotez." Charlie Haden said that before anybody could borrow one of her records, they had to promise to learn to play the songs on it. (She eventually put out her own albums, like the killer early jazz-rap MAINTAIN CONTROL, with mebers of Prime Time, and Ornette as special guest on "There Are No Simple Answers." Again, off-topic, but great[and o course he does play a horn])

― don, Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Fixed the link above for that Rebirth & Slim tune.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 November 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

We have People TV in Atlanta, and last year I spent a lot of time taing random things off it, marshing band videos being one of them. The beats truly were crunk, and the dancing that accompanied them was straight out of the club.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Marching band videos? You mean like single songs, like pop videos? Whole concerts? Never heard of People TV, is that local to Atlanta?

― don, Friday, 26 November 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the links, Jordan. Also, on Public Radio's "Beale Street caravan," I just heard NRBQ with horns, live from Coney Island (the one in Cincinnati, not NY). They kept adding extra beats to "swing"; pretty funny. I'd forgotten, they used to have the Whole Wheat Horns, or maybe they're playing horns themselves, like Z Z Top. Reminds me of HIP-BOP-SKA, by the Skatalites, with guests like Lester Bowie and David Murray. Lester does some of this approach on James Carter's COVERSIN' WITH THE ELDERS, which also has Harry Sweets Edison on trumpet, Buddy Tate on clarinet, Hamiett Bluiett on baritone, and JC plays various reed instruments from his storied collection. It ain't Storyville but it ain't bad. Chicka-boom!

― don, Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Revive.

In Tower Records I noticed in the new Downbeat magazine a nice article on New Orleans brass bands and more. The Stooges Brass band, Hot 8, and Soul Rebels are all here. I haven't checked to see if the article is online.

As a contributing supporter of afropop.org I get a weekly e-mail thing from them. This week they have a nice photo-essay by Ned Sublette(musician, musicologist and author of that immense book on Cuban music) on New Orleans. Sublette is living there for awhile and studying the Caribbean roots of New Orleans. He's got an interview with Donald Harrison and some others. I think you can check it all out at afropop.org

― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Brass Bands - C/D

― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I had time to go down to Jazzfest at the end of April and into early May and check everybody out. Plus that other fest with swamp pop and Blood Ulmer and more is going on at the rock n bowl.

― steve-k, Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Kermit Ruffins is now on tour...
http://www.basinstreetrecords.com/
http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/kermit.html

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

He's got a new cd with Rebirth I believe. I doubt they're together on tour though

― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I downloaded a ton of stuff for free online a while ago. It is great stuff. Can't remember any names, though. I just filled two cds and labelled them New Orleans Jazz 1 and 2. It sounds drunk and it sounds happy and sometimes it stumbles along like a sad drunk but still manages to sound fun. Right after I saw "Wild Man Blues" I decided I should have some of that.

I think one was called Yarl River Blues Band.

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 March 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yarl.org/mp3s.htm

― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Sunday, 27 March 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the heads up Steve! Hot 8 in Downbeat, who knew.

I'll be going down to Jazzfest the first weekend to play with Mama Digdown's and see brass bands, can't wait.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 27 March 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It should be great.

From the April issue excerpt on Downbeat's website:

Next Generation New Orleans Brass Bands
Brass Beyond The Streets

By Jennifer Odell

Philip Frazier honks his sousaphone on a chilly January Sunday on the corner of Daneel and 3rd streets. Musicians start to shuffle away from the crowd milling outside the Bean Brothers Bar and strap on horns and snare drums, ready to get their roll on. Dancers for the Undefeated Dicas Social Aid and Pleasure Club come around the corner and tubas, sousaphones, saxophones and bass drums fall in line as the Divas belt out The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There.”

Winding past Mary’s Nightowl Bar, Candlelight Bar, Sandpiper and The New Look, the parading community group hits all of the Uptown neighborhood’s brass band stops. Ostrich plumes fan the air above the Divas in time with Frazier’s non-stop vamps. When the dancers slow down and form a circle, trading moves with kids, the band plays even harder, echoing braay swueals off the projects across the street. This is how brass band music was born.

But it’s growing up. And while playing the second lines and funerals remains important, many of today’s hottest brass players are concentrating more on polishing their CDs and getting national recognition than on stealing the show on Sunday afternoons. The current generation is following the successful business model created by the Dirty Dozen and Rebirth brass bands; updating a traditional sound to make the music relevant to a larger audience. And with each step forward, another cross-breed of the brass band sound is born. Mardi Gras Indian bands like Big Sam’s Funky Nation are based in funk, the Soul Rebels are purveyors of hip-hop and the Hot 8, New Birth and the Stooges hold down the street scene with their bebop-heavy takes on the traditional style.

― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

From afropop.org

MARDI GRAS 2005: a photo essay by Ned Sublette
Also Check out Interviews with Joseph Roach, Donald Harrison, and Vicki Mayer by Ned Sublette

― Steve-k (Steve K), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

there was some sorta Folkways record i checked out in Fredericksburg, Texas, and it dirged and dirtied heaving heavier than a mule cry, as syrupy and sun-stroked than just about anything i could think of (though that recent Sub Rosa Tibetan ceremony thing is sorta close). one of those New Orleans series ones. don't know if a single tortoise tune clocked in under eight minutes...

― imbidimts, Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. I used to love going to Bean Brothers to see Hot 8, but they've switched their Sunday gig to Patio 79. I'll have to read the whole article (though Hot 8, New Birth, and the Stooges are NOT "bebop-heavy", ha).

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 27 March 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to that Kermit w/Rebirth album next week because it's new brass band record, but he's really not much of a trumpet player these days (whereas Kabuki, Rebirth's trumpet player, is the fucking best). Apparently he doesn't mind setting himself up against hot players though, like on that Harry Connick record where Leroy Jones just slaughters him.

The only recording of I've heard of Kermit where he sounds really good is Treme Brass Band's Gimme My Money Back, which is ten years old.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That Treme Brass Band "Gimme My Money Back" one is a great one. I got that on my last trip to N'awlins back in '96. "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" goes the song by somebody, and I do.

― steve-k, Monday, 28 March 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw man, that's WAY too long. I start jonesing after a few months with no New Orleans.

Have you heard the Stooges and Hot 8 cds, Steve?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

No. I need to get back up to speed and check out those two and the Soul Rebels.

― steve-k, Monday, 28 March 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Kermit Ruffins is almost as dull as Los Hombres Calientes. They're the extremely boring and acceptable face of contemporary New Orleans music.

Jordan is SO SO SO OTM about Hot 8.

― adam (adam), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The new Soul Rebels album is ehhhh...it's WAY produced, with lots of slightly corny programming, guest stars, electric bass, etc. There are a couple of hot tracks (like Work It Out and They Don't Know, mostly for the MASSIVE SOUSAPHONE WHOOMPS that Damien's only done live until now), but it's not really a brass band album for the most part.

I love Hot 8 to death and I'm so happy that they finally put out a damn record. I wish the mix did a little more justice to the drummers (same for the Stooges record actually), but it's really good anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The new Kermit Ruffins/Rebirth record Throwback is pretty good. Like the title says, it's mostly happy festival type tunes like old-school Rebirth. The production is really big and clean sounding and it's a pretty hot lineup (Corey Henry on trombone, Trombone Shorty on trombone one tune). Kermit isn't 1/2 the trumpet player that Derrick Shezbie is, but it's fun and there are some HOT trombone solos. Any week with a new brass band record is a good week!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

An old buddy of mine, who's originally from Louisiana, has somehow arranged to head back to New Orleans for his work for the next month or so, just in time to go to the French Quarter Fest and stay through jazz fest. Aww man.

― steve-k, Friday, 8 April 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice. I will be there next week!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the brass band thing with Souljah Slim on it?

― Ian Johansen (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 April 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'You Don't Wanna Go to War', off of Rebirth's Hot Venom record (other bands play it as Hurricane Jorge though, Digdown did a version on the last record).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, there's some serious filler on the second half of that Kermit disc. Talking about New Orleans over the band for 6 1/2 minutes, Happy Birthday, a wack hip-hop tune, some wack Kermit features, etc.. I wouldn't recommend it for a brass band introduction, but it has its moments.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 9 April 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I wonder if there are any brass bands in this movie documentary coming to the AFI Silver Spring Md theatre:

MAKE IT FUNKY!
Michael Murphy
USA, 2005, TBD

New Orleans is at the center of this story about musicians who brought funk to rhythm & blues and rock & roll. Featuring Big Sam's Funky Nation, the Neville Brothers and Allen Toussaint, with special appearances by Bonnie Raitt and Keith Richards.

Friday 6/17 at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday 6/18 at 3:15 p.m.

FREE OUTDOOR MOVIES & MUSIC
At the SILVER PLAZA in Downtown Silver Spring

MAKE IT FUNKY!
Friday night fun will surely ensue when New Orleans funk legends Walter Washington and Big Sam's Funky Nation perform live in conjunction with MAKE IT FUNKY!, yet another film in our fabulous - and FUNKY! - Music Documentary strand.

Friday 6/17
Music starts at 7:30 p.m., film rolls at 9:30 p.m.
FREE!

― Steve K (Steve K), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonnie Raitt has to pop up in everything like her name is Zelig or something. She and Jackson Browne showed up onstage to sing background for a song or 2 when I saw Brian Wilson.

Back to New Orleans stuff-I've seen Big Sam's Funky Nation mentioned in Offbeat but I don't know anything about them.

― steve-k, Friday, 27 May 2005 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Stooges might be in there, since Sam plays for them sometimes and they did a track on his record, but I doubt it. I know he's related to Andrews family, who are mostly musicians (sometimes it seems like everyone is at least a first or second cousin of everyone else in the brass band scene).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway Big Sam's Funky Nation is one of the New Orleans nu-funk bands, they're okay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(Big) Sammy played trombone with the Dirty Dozen for a bit, before setting off to do his own thing. He's really fun to watch, but the bit of Funky Nation I heard at Jazzfest this year didn't thrill me; too monster-guitar heavy.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, did you see him with the Andrews family band? Two snare drummers, two sousaphones, two trumpets, two bones, a bass drummer, AND a five piece funk-rock band behind them. Total trainwreck.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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Found clips of the Pinettes in their IG Story today but its expiring soon

― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 February 2025 22:53 (one year ago)

It was on the NFL youtube channel this morning, but no longer for some reason. It was pretty silly, everyone got 4 - 8 bars, but better than not doing it. Also heard but didn't see Big Freedia, which was odd.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 10 February 2025 23:04 (one year ago)

Found Southern U and Pinettes portion here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-xXblypsu8

― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 February 2025 23:54 (one year ago)

well it was on http://www.youtube.com/@SmashTimeProductions

― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 February 2025 23:55 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hF95VbYu8

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 00:19 (one year ago)

U Just got juiced Youtube page has most of it and was watchable there. Yea, I see that they didn't get a lot of time, but you're right , better than nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hF95VbYu8

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 00:27 (one year ago)

one month passes...

I saw on Katy R’s IG page that Youngblood passed. I think she’s referring to Henry Youngblood who was with Treme or sat in with them.

Here is an old blog post on him

https://iambricemiller.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/down-in-the-treme-mr-henry-youngblood/

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 March 2025 00:12 (one year ago)

I see on public facebook posts also that Henry Youngblood was known for singing “I Got a Big Fat Woman “ with the Treme Brass band and sometimes with other bands .

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 March 2025 17:09 (one year ago)

two months pass...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ6fDBrxBCi/?igsh=ZnF2dDRqajhiYnNm

I love the dancing in this second line ( actually guy is dancing on the sidewalk alongside the second line)

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 15:49 (one year ago)

I keep seeing more cool dancing in second line reels

― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 May 2025 23:30 (one year ago)

some from itchy_ videos whose reel I linked above.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 21:05 (one year ago)

Itchy is the big account for second line vids these days, it's great but focused on the dancing, I miss seeing more whole tunes and long-form videos with the bands. I've got a couple of youtube accounts that I follow that scratch the itch though.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 May 2025 21:13 (one year ago)

Yep. I see that some of the videos emphasizing dancers have the term footwork in the title.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2025 20:18 (one year ago)

this youtube account focusses mostly on the dancing but shows the band at times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_cmEt8Lhc

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2025 20:29 (one year ago)

two months pass...

Well, 23 years after starting this thread I'm subbing with Rebirth for two nights in Chicago this weekend.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 22 August 2025 14:45 (nine months ago)

That’s awesome! Congrats

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2025 01:46 (nine months ago)

!!
Amazing!
Have fun...

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 23 August 2025 02:46 (nine months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzaxkEjpA1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVE3fIuPs2s

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 25 August 2025 14:24 (nine months ago)

Go Jordan , go Jordan

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 August 2025 14:06 (nine months ago)

Thanks! Learned a lot (listening to a band for hundreds of hours is not *quite* the same thing as being in the middle of it) and if there's ever a next time it will be even better, but we did it and it was a beautiful experience.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 August 2025 14:25 (nine months ago)

Lots of Katrina 20 years later coverage

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN9g9KJjK6y/?igsh=MWY0MTJhNnI4Nm1oYg==

What do people miss about pre- Katrina New Orleans reel

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 August 2025 19:16 (nine months ago)

https://grist.org/extreme-weather/katrina-levees-new-orleans-army-corps-trump-landry/

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 30 August 2025 19:17 (nine months ago)

five months pass...

DJ Soul Sister says thank you 🙏🏾 to the New Orleans Record Press
for making this newly released Tipitina's Record Club gem available to us at WWOZ FM New Orleans for on-air play. I was thrilled to play one of the 1974 outtakes on my Soul Power show this past Saturday night! And thank you to Tip’s Record Club for the work to unearth and ethically release unheard recordings featuring this powerful band with the powerful voices of Big Chief Bo Dollis Sr and his Mardi Gras Indians tribe on top.
Via Tipitina’s Record Club:
“Step back into New Orleans music history.
Tipitina’s Record Club proudly presents rare, previously unreleased studio and live recordings from 1973–74, capturing The Wild Magnolias alongside Willie Tee and The New Orleans Project at the absolute height of their powers.”

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 February 2026 16:59 (three months ago)

Jordan what's new in the brass band world? My Instagram algorhythms haven't steered me properly to New Orleans bands or street events lately

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 February 2026 17:01 (three months ago)

This record was a nice surprise, Elijah Jett's band coming with an excellent album:
https://tidalwavebrassband.bandcamp.com/album/tidal-wave-washing-the-city-clean-one-note-at-a-time

My band album of MJ arrangements that we started recording 14 years ago is finally being released next month, vinyl and all. We're doing a record release show at Chickie Wah Wah in NOLA on 3/6. Excited to go to the second line that weekend, haven't been back since 2022 I think.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 22:24 (three months ago)

Nice . Thanks

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 February 2026 04:54 (three months ago)

one month passes...

First single is streaming, but the whole record is up on Bandcamp now (with vinyl available on the band's website) -
https://digdown.bandcamp.com/album/brass-jackson-the-music-of-the-king-of-pop

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2026 13:52 (two months ago)

Listened to a bunch of it yesterday. Sounds good.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 April 2026 19:22 (two months ago)

I know the new right wing management at CBS is ruining the network, but I see that on Sunday April 5 there's gonna be a feature on the New Orleans Black masking Indians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02V3hz2zZVc

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 4 April 2026 19:25 (two months ago)

one month passes...

Matt Sakakeeny is going to be working on his book about New Orleans marching bands and music education this summer

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 22:38 (one month ago)

two weeks pass...

Paul McCartney playing a horn with Jon Baptiste and Colbert show band

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18jk74dHd7/?mibextid=wwXIfr

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 May 2026 22:11 (two weeks ago)

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