https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e36gSnf8mgE
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 7 March 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
Everything about that video is so New Orleans awesome-- the brass, the dancing,
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
not sure if this will work, but i'm watching this long live video from the Stooges, who have recently sorta reunited as a brass band.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
just ordered their new cd from Louisiana Music Factory because it gives me a warm sense of nostalgia to pay $20 for a brass band disc that's not available digitally.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Ha
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdiHQ1f7Ag
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 6 May 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
It's been a year since Trumpet Black has been gone.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 May 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
nice to see Leroy Jones getting some love here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq0Mt-jro18
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/protests-erupt-baton-rouge-police-fatally-shoot-alton-sterling-gallery-1.2700968?pmSlide=1.2702887
A brass band in a Baton Rouge vigil march
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
http://www.offbeat.com/articles/last-sixth-ward-treme-brass-bands-benny-jones-sr-new-orleans/
Nice profile of this 70 something percussionist who's still at it
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
Just saw a video clip DJ Soul Sister posted on Instagram of a recent second line parade. New Orleans brass bands remain awesome
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
Hot 8 Brass Band - Can’t Nobody Get Down
Saw someone put this 2016 ep on a best-of list for the year.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
2017 Jazzfest scheDule is out. MegHan Trainor!!!
http://lineup.nojazzfest.com/
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Friday, 27 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Awesome. Fest has no interest it seems in adding Ponderosa Stomp type acts to smaller stages. Haven't perused it closely to see if all brass bands are playing. Old-timer big name New Orleans r'n'b acts are still there at least.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 January 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
TBC and the Stooges are not listed, just Rebirth, Hot 8, and Pinettes (and Soul Rebels backing Nas).
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 January 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/event/music/513038608/hard-living-in-the-big-easy-housing-costs-push-musicians-out-of-new-orleans
Rising housing costs are pushing many musicians and service workers — the backbone of New Orleans' tourism economy — further and further outside the city limits. This suburbanization of the working class poses more than an inconvenience: It's fraying the culture of New Orleans and splintering the very neighborhoods that have nurtured the city's music for decades.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. Gentrification is always a double edged sword. Much of Treme, Central City etc. needed repairing, though. I'd rather see St. Roch Market open than boarded up.
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
wrong
― adam, Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
st roch market is one of the most despicable culprits in the ruin of new orleans. millions of dollars in grant and city money went into opening a food hall for yuppies. the promised produce stand in the vast food desert that is downtown new orleans was just fuckin heirloom parsnips and shit
― adam, Thursday, 2 February 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Singer John Boutte, who grew up in Treme, couldn't afford to buy there after gentrification
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 February 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
and that neighborhood has some of the strongest and most vocal community organizers in the city--even then, hard to keep out carpetbaggers and airbnb speculators and other disaster capitalists.
airbnb has really done a number on the city, especially in historic neighborhoods. for the last 7 years of my time there i lived in bywater. if i go on airbnb now there are literally a dozen listings in a one block radius of my old address. each one of those is a working family pushed into the east or marrero or jeff parish.
― adam, Thursday, 2 February 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Adam, are you no longer in NO? Sorry, I didn't mean to seem dismissive of people being priced out of their neighborhoods, and I make no claims to being an urban planning expert. I don't know how you best handle something like the market, which is historic and was already in rough shape before Katrina closed it entirely.
I was just looking on Google Earth and it showed renovations in progress on the Dew Drop Inn.
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link
The Dew Drop Inn owner is looking for donations
http://dewdropnola.squarespace.com/revitalization/
http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/dew_drop_inn_owner_envisions_1.html
The legendary Dew Drop Inn where such greats as Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Deacon John Moore, and B.B. King performed, has been closed for more than four decades. But owner Kenneth Jackson, who inherited the historic club from his grandfather, has grand plans to make the joint swing once again, Vice reports.
"Jackson's working with Harmony Neighborhood Development, Tulane City Center, and the Milne Inspiration Center to raise $1.5 million for the repairs," according to the story. "Last month they secured a modest $6,000 grant from the city of New Orleans, which they aim to use to host a fundraiser in March. They're largely depending upon donations made through their website to get the Dew Drop up and swinging again. If all goes as planned, it will reopen in April 2018."
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/24/434209433/will-the-dew-drop-inn-swing-again-attempts-to-revive-new-orleans-hot-spot
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 February 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
sorry didn't mean to be so snippy dan. i lived a couple blocks from the st roch market and seeing its potential totally wasted like that was infuriating.
(we moved to nyc, where my wife's family is, about two years ago. miss new orleans terribly.)
― adam, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
RIP Charlie Simms, of Donna's Bar & Grill. Memorial & second line on 3/3 I believe.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
Spent some of the best times in my life in that bar. RIP Charlie.
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Just posting this pic here because it makes me happy.
http://donnaandcharliesbarandgrillnola.com/images/Charlie_Donna.jpg
― Fake posts from a failing poster (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
It being Mardi Gras, someone tweeted this long 2015 article about a Mardi Gras Indian cultural center being planned for Lasalle Street. I wonder if they've made progress?
http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/08/new-orleans-secures-a-place-for-the-mardi-gras-indians-katrina/402208/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
My band is driving down this weekend to play Charlie's memorial service/second line.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
We released a bootleg of a show I was really happy with: https://digdown.bandcamp.com/album/bootleg-series-vol-1
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
Will check that out.
I somehow had conflicts for both Hot 8's and Stooges Brass recent gigs in W. DC area. Stooges one was at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage so I can look for that on their video archive at least. Hot 8 was the one I wanted to see more. I just saw 2014 movie "Chef" that has the characters in it bopping around to Hot 8's take on Marvin Gaye. Have seen them before, just not in awhile.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
The first episode of the new season of Fargo had a super random Rebirth BB placement.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/2017/04/12/the-hot-8-brass-band-and-trombone-shorty-fight-for-the-heritage-and-future-of-new-orleans/
Right now, one cause for concern is the city’s recently proposed $40 million security plan. A statement from the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans, a nonprofit advocacy group, noted that “many locations studied to create the plan, including Times Square, Beale Street [in Memphis] and London’s Soho, are widely seen as culturally ‘sanitized’ and ‘homogenized,’ packaged for easy and unchallenging consumption by visitors.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orleans-security-plan-bar-curfew-3-am-concerns-business-owners/
One that is still being decided is whether bars should be forced to close their doors at 3 a.m. and make everybody come inside.
The proposal includes adding 200 high-definition cameras in 20 hot spots around the city and big signs that make it clear you’re being filmed. There are barriers, which are meant to stop a maniac with a vehicle from driving onto Bourbon Street
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 May 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Jason Berry article on Deb Cotton, the blogger/ writer and more who was wounded at a 2013 second line and recently passed away http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/August-2017/Deb-Cotton-Now-and-Forever/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 05:20 (seven years ago) link
Another piece on the late Big Red Deb CottonMaybe she was mentioned in obits back in May
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_cea430ba-2f4d-11e7-b7bd-ab6733e78453.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
So sad. No one's really stepped into that role of documenting the second lines and I miss it.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
I do see clips on Facebook live but that's so transitory.
Maybe she was mentioned in obits back in May
Don't know, but this is the first I'm hearing of it. Really sad.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
On twitter @mattHintonPhoto (Matthew Hinton) has some pics up of the second line for Dolores Marsalis that was on the 1st I think
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
video clip too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.houstonpress.com/event/houston-international-jazz-festival-showdown-throwdown-texas-vs-louisiana-9617807
Saturday the 5th in Houston: with Hot 8 Brass Band, Bayou City Brass Band, To Be Continued Brass Band.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Read that DJ Brice Nice lost his huge vinyl collection in the flooding that just hit New Orleans. Also, the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club has suffered damage too. For others its been even worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/it-wasnt-even-a-hurricane-but-heavy-rains-flooded-new-orleans-as-pumps-faltered/2017/08/09/b3b7506a-7d37-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_neworleans-745pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.14743ab4c43e
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 August 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
RIP Arian Macklin, sousaphone player for the Stooges, Free Agents, and Youngblood Brass Band over the years. Also Herlin Riley's nephew.
YBB put up some live tracks, proceeds go to the family: https://youngbloodbrassbandofficial.bandcamp.com/album/rip-arian-macklin
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Hot 8 video for St James Infirmary. Good stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=273&v=wg43MWpLP7g
― "Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 September 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
Not exactly brass band related, but well...
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/12/irvin_mayfield_indicted_by_fed.html
WWL first reported in 2015 that federal authorities were looking into Mayfield. He's said to have steered more than $1.1 million from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation's Board to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra over two years, while serving in leadership roles on both organization's boards and taking home a six-figure paycheck from the jazz orchestra.
He's also reported to have spent thousands in donations on travel expenses the library foundation says were not connected with library business, including $18,000 in hotel expenses in New York.
According to the station, the indictment against Mayfield and his longtime artistic partner Ronald Markham included four counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice, among other charges.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:30 (six 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 Gang
An album from 2015 and a 2017 single . On Bandcamp
https://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/dead-and-gone
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link
Some friends are heading to New Orleans this coming weekend. Any second lines or great gigs on the 3rd and 4th? Not seeing any second lines listed yet on that WWOZ Taking it to the Streets calendar.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 06:10 (six years ago) link
I'm selecting some favorite brass band recordings for a little piece, and uploading a few that aren't on Youtube. Here's a cut from what is imo the best TBC record, which is not available online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO8whcNlPII
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
good choice
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2018/03/edna_karr_marching_band_oscars_t-mobile.html
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/movies_tv/article_13caeb3e-202a-11e8-8fb8-93aadbf824ff.html
The Edna Karr High School Marching band from Algiers was featured in a new T-mobile commercial during the Oscars
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link