https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/60-minutes-to-profile-st-augustine-marching-100-band-on-sundays-broadcast/289-364bf439-4b9d-4e0c-af68-041db2e351c7
St Augustine High in New Orleans Marching 100 band will be on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday March 14 at 7 et
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 06:18 (three years ago) link
Brass Fest happening now:https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/videos/263377655319746
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 13 March 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
Thanks, send some $ too
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I sent some I mean
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Updated link, hot set now đ„: https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/https://www.facebook.com/saveourbrassfoundation/videos/461030215018700
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 13 March 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
Sportyâs Brass Band
https://secondlines.com/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
Big 6 strong too, of course
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Mama Digdown getting love from the emcee for their smokin performances. Nice video ( plus predictable calls to show me your cheese Wisconsin)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 March 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
I hadn't seen the video until it aired, I got emo seeing all that footage from last year.
Loved the Sporty's and Big 6 sets, I was dancing in my kitchen all day.
(the less said about some of the others, the better, lol)
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 14 March 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
Agree
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
NBC tv news story tonight: New Orleans Black community reeling from Covid
17 members of the Zulus died during the pandemic . So many Black New Orleans Covid deaths
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 March 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/news/pbs-frontline-series-focuses-on-new-orleans-funeral-traditions-impacted-by-covid
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
Dvrâing that, .
In more upbeat news , saw a video clip on twitter of Big 6 playing on a porch in the evening sounding great. An Offbeat mag tweet
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/news/article_2015a954-90bd-11eb-819c-d363b523d93e.html
RIP
Keelian Boyd Sr., an artist and celebrated big chief of the Young Maasai Hunters, died Sunday of heart failure at the Ochsner Health Center in Chalmette. He was 37.
Boyd, a crane operator at Domino Sugar in Arabi, launched the Young Maasai Hunters tribe in 2018, emerging on Mardi Gras morning in a stunning purple suit with two perfectly suspended wings extending from the side of his crown. Before that he had been mostly behind the scenes in the Black masking Indian culture, also known as Mardi Gras Indians, as a "hook-up man," basically an advisor called in at clutch moments to help other Indians finish their suits
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
21st Century Brass Band released an album and it's hard:https://open.spotify.com/album/3AmfQNsRiPdzMCLrrdEC6Z?si=5ygm98xDSlaqMHMnUrhEaQ
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
Also 'I Wanna Go Back Outside' must be the first brass band tune about the pandemic
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
"I Wanna Go Back Outside" by 21st Century Brass sounds good. Will check out the rest.
Not always crazy about Offbeat Magazine, but sometimes it has provided good coverage. They have a go fund me going
We are closing our Frenchmen Street office, where we've been located since 1998, because we can no longer afford the rent in this location. We are having to get rid of decades' worth of OffBeat Magazine copies, photos, posters, books and more so we can move to a smaller location within the New Orleans Jazz Museum at 400 Esplanade Avenue (located in the Old U.S. Mint). We need your help more than ever!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-offbeat-magazine
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
offbeat is brutally corny but i love the tireless/guileless energy that leads them to run like 1000 word reviews of some papa grows funk cd called "red beans and fais do do: live on dumaine st"
i will probably give them some money just for providing me free reading material for bus and streetcar rides for 15 years
― adam, Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
In my early days of going to Jazzfest, pre-internet, you didn't know stages and times for acts until you hit town and picked up an Offbeat, so for providing me those few moments of joyous scribbling and highlighting they will always be a great memory.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 22 April 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
WWOZ is doing a jazz fest in place through the weekend
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 April 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
More sad news . Via a Ned Sublette email:
Terry Gibson, Jr., trumpeter with Sporty's Brass Band in New Orleans, died suddenly on the night of April 12 at the age of 29.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/terry-gibson-jr-home-going
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/news/young-trumpeter-terry-gibson-jr-passes-awayterry-gibson-1991-2021/
Obit names all the bands Gibson was in , talks about his European gigs, and a brief mention of his backing Beyonce on a trip she made to New Orleans
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-new-doc-shines-a-loving-light-on-the-new-orleans-jazz-funeral?fbclid=IwAR1FFRon3dUOuB8JkP_St4254YdxldlM2psCAnC5QmWMbm26_GsNHcOuQ0U
article by someone unfamiliar with brass bands on new movie doc by writer Jason Berry on New Orleans and brass called City of a Million Dreams . I heard Berry speak once. Impressive guy
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
In 2018 Berry released a book with that title. Now comes the movie doc
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
Satchmo SummerFest from July 31 to August 1.
Jazzfest October 8 to 17th
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_dd165cba-cd85-11eb-af26-23891ed8d5f9.html
French Quarter Fest in October will be Thursday through Saturday as city of New Orleans said it would be too hard to provide police for a Sunday FQF day and a Saints game
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
First official post-pandemic second line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF0zLo9BEaQ
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I guess.
So the fall JazzFest has been announced and eh whatever.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 04:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.hnoc.org/publications/books/dancing-streets
Judy Cooper book on New Orleans social clubs and second lines
DANCING IN THE STREETSSOCIAL AID AND PLEASURE CLUBS OF NEW ORLEANS
Judy Cooper, with essays by Rachel Carrico, Freddi Williams Evans, Charles âActionâ Jackson, Matt Sakakeeny, and Michael G. White
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 July 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
2021 Jazzfest cancelled due to Delta variant Covid
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 August 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
I'm scheduled to be there then, playing a wedding and some other gigs. We will see?
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 9 August 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link
Sorry. Was thinking many folks had already bought plane tickets, made reservations, etc but the unvaccinated were not thinking about that
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 August 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
The cancellation of Jazz Fest is actually the second major blow of the past week; two days ago, we lost Charles âActionâ Jackson, WWOZ radio host and one of the staunchest advocates and stewards of NOLA brass band and second line culture. Check out âTakin It to the Streetsâ on âOZâs website if youâre not familiar with him, and spread the word about him if you are. He will be greatly missed. R.I.P.
― thewufs, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 04:03 (three years ago) link
I'm gonna miss "It's your BOY!"
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
RIP, it changed the game when I could actually look online and see second line dates & routes, instead of having to text somebody in the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CSacbXHeg
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwoz/albums/72157719667600746/
Photos from a pop up second line for Action Jackson
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
https://prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/39/film/6926/City-of-a-Million-Dreams
New Orleans movie showing for free online via this fest only through August 18
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 01:48 (three years ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/congo-square-under-siege-the-latest-threat-to-black-cultures-ground-zero-in-new-orleans?fbclid=IwAR2bczt5xagrpPxdJ_Yzr0_lFVH9TuDuZwnCjbFnRvnhuv1LLcSc3OnKsZQ
Article about Congo Square and the Jason Berry movie doc City of a Million Dreams
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link
Good luck New Orleans
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 August 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
Going to see Rebirth in Rhode Island on Wednesday. They'll be playing with heavy hearts, I'm sure.
― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Monday, 30 August 2021 11:46 (three years ago) link
Bennie Pete, founder and leader of the Hot 8 Brass Band, has passed. R.I.P.
― thewufs, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Oh no!
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
Hasnât been officially reported yet AFAIK but a tuba-playing friend told me, and the news is going around facebook.
― thewufs, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
I heard as well, RIP. It hasn't hit me yet but he was one of the kindest people I've ever met, just a big-hearted mountain.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 6 September 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
Seeing it on twitter too. Googling I see he has had health issues since 2014. Had seizures then . So sad . In his 40s
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_49b3a9ba-2f5f-5bfa-b1ed-6712c1638d09.html
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Big 6 Brass band is struggling due to Hurricane Ida. Asking for $ to their Cash App on Instagram
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 September 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.wwoz.org/blog/675736
Uncle Lionelâs brother, musician Norman Baptiste died back in August I see
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 September 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
Norman Batiste
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 September 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
We're doing a fundraiser on Friday, will be distributing proceeds to our New Orleans brass band community: https://www.facebook.com/events/277709660554623
Same for everything from the Mama Digdown's and Youngblood Brass Band bandcamp pages.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 13 September 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
Found this incredible archival footage of Hot 8 from 1996, almost 2 hours long, apparently digitized from Bennie Pete's VHS copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprSGzqvpc8
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link