New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

Yes indeed. Speaking of the Rebels, I see in a recent Keith Spera article that REM just went to see the Rebels perform in New Orleans. REM is recording in New Orleans

For the Music Shed sessions, Buck, Stipe and Mills called in local trombonists Mark Mullins, Craig Klein and Greg Hicks of Bonerama -- Mills joined Bonerama on stage at Tipitina’s in November 2006 for a Friends of Music Coalition benefit -- plus Shamarr Allen and Leroy Jones on flugelhorn. A bearded Stipe shot brief iPhone videos of the New Orleans horns in action, which he posted on R.E.M.’s Web site.

The visiting rock stars did not confine themselves to the studio. One or more popped up at shows around town, including Son Volt at The Parish of the House of Blues; the last entry, following dozens of names, on the guest list for a sold-out Neko Case gig at Republic New Orleans was “R.E.M.” Allen also escorted R.E.M. to see the New Orleans Moonshiners on Frenchmen Street and the Soul Rebels Brass Band at Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine Street.

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2009/12/rem_records_in_the_garden_dist.html

going hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2jCXevArhs

i like that new soul rebels cd btw, most of it is slamming.

Their membership has changed a bit over the years, right?

yeah, sax and sousaphone have changed up, and i know there were other brass players (like big sam & andrew baham) in the band over the years, but the drummers & most of the frontline have been solid.

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2009/12/new_orleans_saints_tribute_son.html

Who Dat? Songs about the New Orleans Saints via the NO Times-Picayune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9v6-dnHtAE

going to new orleans this weekend...playing with the stooges for krewe du vieux, then digdown @ donna's afterwards

Man, that's gonna be a magical atmosphere to play in.

Well, it's up to music fans and bands to save New Orleans now...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/obama-to-new-orleans-reco_b_439759.html

the administration is letting the Office of Gulf Coast Recovery quietly die.

does anyone love the Eureka Brass Band? I'm trying to find old footage and have material that I can't source. Any clues, hints, pointers welcome....

Jordan's the expert around here but I wonder if even he knows real old-school groups like that. Maybe he knows people who do though

Saw Trombone Shorty playing on ESPN this morning (pre-Super Bowl hype in effect)

A number of schools have canceled classes for Feb. 8, the day after the Super Bowl. A civil trial has been postponed. Mardi Gras parades have been moved. Commander’s Palace, the 130-year-old grand dame of New Orleans restaurants, will close on game night, the first time the restaurant has closed for a one-time event in memory, possibly ever. From the NY Times

I bet they're second-lining now

http://www.nola.com/superbowl/index.ssf/2010/02/kermit_ruffins_bar_ground_zero.html

Free Agents are playing our festival later this month--they're good, i gather?

i don't know much about the old pre-revival bands, but i know people who know people who do.

free agents get it done, yeah.

I'd love to be there this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQY0FFR0rMU

"Who Dat say they gonna beat them Saints" chant and Young Fellows Brass Band and more and a few quick shots that are kinda not safe for work

January 2010 Treme Brass Band footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nEWAh130lA

Jordan:

Do you which bands are getting to march in the Super Bowl parade tonight? They've got floats from all the Krewes.

I may have to hunt around on the Nola.com site and youtube and see what I can find

http://www.nola.com/superbowl/index.ssf/2010/02/saints_super_bowl_parade_inclu.html

“I think that this is the first time that you’ll ever see all these floats together at one time, and very well could be the last time you ever see all these floats together,” said Barry Kern, president of Blaine Kern Studios, which is overseeing the event.

Included will be the signature floats of Endymion, Bacchus, Rex, Zulu, Alla, Caesar, Tucks, Muses, Orpheus and Babylon, he said.

Caesar parades in Metairie and Alla travels along streets on the West Bank from Algiers to Gretna. The others follow routes in New Orleans.

In Tuesday's parade, more than a dozen local marching bands, a horse-pulled steam fire engine, modern fire trucks from New Orleans and Jefferson Parish, and the Budweiser Clydesdales and wagon will be sprinkled among the floats.

Saints owner Tom Benson, Saints players and the team’s staff will be toasted at Gallier Hall by a wide array of public officials, led by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, acting Jefferson Parish President Steve Theriot and Gov. Bobby Jindal, and including several of the state’s congressional delegation, other local elected officials from the New Orleans area, and several from neighboring Mississippi.

While stopped at the reviewing stand, the Saints also will be serenaded with a rendition of “Halftime (Stand Up & Get Crunk)” by the Ying Yang Twins, said Ceeon Quiett, communications director for Mayor Ray Nagin.

“How could you have this parade and not have this group that’s coined the theme song that everyone loves,” Quiett said.

Hot 8 buckjumping before the Super Bowl sometime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQZT2Xxu2Vk

Hot 8 coming to the DC area soon

Rebirth too. But today's Fat Tuesday...who's marching...

For those who will be in New orleans this Sunday (from Offbeat's e-mail):

The New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council and R.E.A.L. present Super Sunday 2010 featuring the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tribes and special guests including the Hot 8 Brass Band, Big Al Carson, Stooges Brass Band, Young Men Olympian, Lady Buckjumpers, Lady Divas, DJ Jubilee, The Troop, Jo "Cool" Davis, DJ Captain Charles, King Fashion and more. The festival begins this Sunday at 11 a.m. at Taylor Park located at Washington Avenue and S. Derbigny Street.

After the festival, the parade will begin at 1 p.m. at Washington Avenue and LaSalle Street, roll onto Simon Bolivar, turn left onto Martin Luther King Boulevard, and head left onto S. Galvez Avenue. From S. Galvez, the procession will move back onto Washington Avenue and culminate at Taylor Park with more activities and performances.

Another article on David the Wire Simon's new upcoming show Treme. Simon flew a brass band up for his kid's Bar Mitzvah I recall...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/magazine/21simon-t.html?scp=1&sq=treme&st=cse

It was a bright, warm, blue-skied December afternoon in Central City, New Orleans, and in this neighborhood of humble shotgun houses and overgrown empty lots, a convoy of white trucks and trailers idled incongruously while unmarked police cars blocked intersections nearby. On any other morning, a police presence would have meant more bad news: in a city that has one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, this neighborhood — roughly a mile from the French Quarter — has a murder rate that, in recent years, has hit quadruple that of the city as a whole. This morning, however, the 20 drivers, as well as 80 other crew members who hefted and humped a boggling array of gear at the tumbledown corner of Second Street and South Liberty, had anything but murder in mind: they were six hours into a day of filming the third episode of “Treme,” David Simon’s new HBO drama — co-created by the seasoned television writer and producer Eric Overmyer — which is set in post-Katrina New Orleans and will make its debut on April 11

The main characters in “Treme” aren’t the overburdened cops, spiraling addicts, ruthless dealers, struggling dockworkers, corrupt politicians or compromised journalists of “The Wire.” In their place, for the most part, are musicians, as the show’s title sneakily suggests: “Treme” (pronounced trih-MAY) is the New Orleans neighborhood where jazz was born. And even though it adjoins the French Quarter, few tourists visit Treme, where generations of the city’s musicians have lived.

As much as crime of every kind was central to “The Wire,” music is the focus of “Treme.” New Orleans-born and Juilliard-trained Wendell Pierce (William “Bunk” Moreland in “The Wire”) plays a trombone player looking for any gig he can get; Steve Zahn plays a feckless singer-songwriter with an allergy to paying work. As in “The Wire,” many nonactors, in this case professional musicians, have been cast in “Treme” in leading roles: the violinist Lucia Micarelli plays a street musician; a charismatic local trumpeter, Kermit Ruffins, plays himself; and dozens of other musicians — from Dr. John to Elvis Costello — appear in smaller parts. The cast is different from “The Wire,” however, because a number of more famous actors are part of “Treme.” John Goodman plays an English professor-novelist enraged by federal and municipal post-Katrina intransigence; the Academy Award-nominee Melissa Leo is a civil rights attorney with a soft spot for starving artists; and Clarke Peters, the distinguished stage and screen actor memorable in “The Wire” as the miniature-furniture-making detective Lester Freamon, plays an independent contractor and a Mardi Gras Indian chief.

btw i've heard some of the old-time dudes in treme brass band pronounce it "TREH-mee".

Interesting.

Just saw on Offbeat.com that New Orleans drummer Bunchy Johnson died. He was recently filmed in the opening episode of Treme according to Treme writer David Mills-- see blog post below. Bunchie apparently drummed with Mardi gras Indians and a who's who of old-school New Orleans r'n'b greats.

http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2010/03/bernard-bunchy-johnson.html

that's too bad, i saw him with leroy jones a bunch of times (both in new orleans and at the ascona festival we played in switzerland). he had a nice light touch.

btw i've heard some of the old-time dudes in treme brass band pronounce it "TREH-mee".

I've heard that a bunch, but Kermit Ruffins reverses that: treh-MEE'

I'm gonna probably go see Hot 8 Saturday at the PG Publick Playhouse in Cheverly, MD outside DC. Might also see Rebirth next Wednesday at the State Theater in Falls Church, VA. Will probably miss New Orleans jazz trumpeter Christian Scott tonight in Reston and tomorrow in Annapolis

Hot 8 were great. Here's my quickie Washington City Paper blog post I did that includes some e-mail Q & A with tuba player Bennie Pete

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/03/26/live-saturday-new-orleans-hot-8-brass-band/

http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2010/03/treme_writer_david_mills_dies.html

I went to the U. of Md with Treme writer and producer David Mills, who just died of a brain aneurism at age 48. I wrote for his fanzine Uncut Funk way back when, and had just e-mailed him about something a few weeks ago.

Mills said he approached his New Orleans musical education with a new fan’s
fervor, and spoke enthusiastically about “walking into Louisiana Music
Factory and coming out with $100 of music CDs, almost like letting the
spirits guide you as to which ones to pick,” he said. “There will be no end
to it, it’s so deep.”

Mills wrote two of the series’ 10 episodes -- episode No. 3 by himself and
episode No. 7 with Davis Rogan, a New Orleans musician and former WWOZ-FM DJ
who is a model for one of the series’ characters, played by Steve Zahn.

As co-executive producer and a contributor to the show’s collaborative
writing process, Mills made his craft present in every episode of “Treme,”
which is due to complete first-season production at the end of April.

http://www.offbeat.com/2010/04/01/hbos-treme-to-tell-the-truth/

Consulting with Rebirth and others on Treme

stooges killin' it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2odEil69C4

So many articles on Treme. Guess I need to get HBO or find someone with it for Sunday. Busboys & Poets, a DC restaurant/lounge is showing it at one of their locations.

http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2010/04/treme_meet_treme.html

Farewell David Mills. David Simon mentioned the brass-band tribute (and the ceremonial tree planting) you received in New Orleans at your University of Maryland chapel funeral ceremony today.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Republicans_convene_in_New_Orleans_with_no_mention_of_Katrina.html

I'm guessing no brass bands performed at the Republican Southern leadership Conference that was just held in New Orleans

Congo Square at Jazz Fest poster of Uncle Lionel

http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2010/04/new_orleans_jazz_fest_2010_con_1.html

That Stooges footage Jordan posted on the 1st of April is pretty awesome

I'm guessing no brass bands performed at the Republican Southern leadership Conference that was just held in New Orleans

attended a half-assed protesty second line ft stooges. so they were performing AT the republicans rather than performing for the republicans.

which is the least threatening/most republican-friendly brass band? treme?

http://www.earthwaverecords.com/pictures/albumimg/d/a0061411.jpg

Anybody go to Jazzfest this year? Last weekend or this one?

April 28 - May 5, 2010
>
> Routes March On: Brass Bands & Cajun Youths
>
> Visit with musicians taking Louisiana roots music forward into the 21st
> century. Brass Bands like Soul Rebels, Rebirth and Hot 8 can be found
> everywhere in the streets and clubs of the Crescent City, mixing rap and
> funk with older traditional numbers. Over in Cajun country, the Pine Leaf
> Boys swap accordions and fiddles for guitars, moving back and forth between
> Cajun and zydeco tunes and new originals.
>
>
> See below for a full playlist, including song title, artist and release.
>
> Click here <http://bit.ly/b4KLs>; to find a list of stations airing American
> Routes.
> Or click here <http://bit.ly/18iwM2>; to listen to this episode.
>

New Orleans band cd releases so far courtesy of Offbeat magazine's e-mail. Most of these are not brass bands but figured I'd post this here anyway. Jordan or others, heard any of these, or any you think might be good?

Released in April 2010
Shamarr Allen & Paul Sanchez: Bridging the Gap (Threadhead Records)
Theresa Andersson: Live at Le Petit (DVD) (Gata)
Glen David Andrews: Walking Through Heaven's Gate (DVD) (Independent)
Philip H. Anselmo: Compilation Volume 1 (Housecore Records)
Holly Bendtsen & Amasa Miller: Our Songs (Threadhead Records)
Big Daddy 'O': Used Blues (Rabadash Records)
Mia Borders: Magnolia Blue (Blaxican Records and Hypersould Records)
Maurice Brown: The Cycle of Love (Independent)
Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band: Zydeco Junkie (Swampadellic Records)
Big Al Carson with the Blues Masters: 3 Phat Catz and 1 Skinny Dog (Rabadash Records)
Jeff Chaz: Live in New Orleans (JCP Records)
Ceasar Elloie: New Orleans to Paris (Turbine Records)
Grandpa Elliot: Sugar Sweet (Playing for Change/Concord)
Honey Island Swamp Band: Good To You (Independent)
Eric Lindell: Between Motion and Rest (Sparco Records)
Ingrid Lucia: Midnight Rendezvous (Threadhead Records)
Roy McGrath Jazz Trio: Long Shot (Independent)
Stanton Moore: Groove Alchemy (Telarc)
Neville Brothers: From the Beginning - Volume 1 (Independent)
Anders Osborne: American Patchwork (Alligator)
Conun Pappas, Jr. : Oh What A Feeling (Independent)
Margie Perez: Singing for my Supper (Threadhead Records)
Matt Perrine & Sunflower City: Bayou Road Suite (Threadhead Records)
Wardell Quezergue: After the Math - The St. Agnes Sessions (Jazz Foundation of America)
John Rankin, Tommy Sancton & Tom Fischer: The Classic Jazz Trio (Rankomatic Music)
Dan Rivers: Acoustic Sunlight (Independent)
Paul Sanchez: Live at Papa Roux - Red Beans & Ricely Yours (Threadhead Records)
Frans Schuman: Live in New Orleans (Independent)
Mark Stone: Trickeration & Rascality (Threadhead Records)
The Swip: Ugly Animals (Independent)
Amy Trail: Lonesome Man (Independent)
Trombone Shorty: Backatown (Verve Forecast)
Seva Venet: Seva Venet Presents the Storyville Stringband of New Orleans (Independent)
Ernie Vincent & the Top Notes: Party on the Bayou: Live at d.b.a. (Rollo Records)

Released in March 2010
Benjy Davis Project: Lost Souls Like Us (Rock Ridge)
Big Sam's Funky Nation: King of the Party (Independent)
JJ Muggler Band: Hard Luck Town (Independent)
The Local Skank: Songs for a Bromance (Independent)
The Nerostotles: Arson & Logic (Independent)
New Orleans Moonshiners : I'm Comin' Home (Independent)
Cale Pellick: In the Loop (Independent)
Rotary Downs: Crooked Maps and Blue Reports (Rockery)
Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
Seva Venet : Seva Venet Presents the Storyville Stringband of New Orleans (Independent)
Washboard Rodeo : Washboard Rodeo (Independent)