New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

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)

Paul Sanchez used to be in Cowboy Mouth, who I never had much use for, but I saw him a couple times on my last visit to N.O., and I like the singer-songwritery stuff he's doing now quite a bit.

Your appreciation of Ingrid Lucia might depend on your tolerance for her EXTREMELY Billie Holiday-influenced vocals, but I like her a lot too.

Haven't heard either of these recent releases, which are funded by Threadhead Records. The Threadheads are Jazzfest messageboard forum fans who have begun pooling donations as loans to help with recording and pressing costs for acts they like. They also volunteer shifts in one of the beer tents at Jazzfest, where proceeds/tips go to community development projects. Pretty cool deal, really.

http://www.threadheadrecords.com/who-we-are/

Shamarr Allen who Sanchez is working with used to be in a brass band. Jordan can probably school us on him.

Glen David Andrews has performed with the Treme Brass band is related to James Andrews and Trombone Shorty Andrews. His gospel brass cd from last year on Threadhead got good reviews but I only heard a song or two and samples.

Jazz trumpet player Christian Scott has been touring the US and getting great reviews.

Wardell Quezergue did the arrangements for lots of old-school classic New Orleans releases. I don't know what this release is.

I bet Stanton Moore has lots of great New Orleans guests on his cd, but alas, Moore is a jambander and that doesn't interest me.

Anyone going to Rebirth tonight in Minneapolis at the Cabooze?

Nope, and I missed their most recent W. DC show. Plus, how did I not know that various United House of Prayer brass bands march on Memorial Day Weekend in W. DC every year?!

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/uhop-parade-2010/

police start enforcing no-music curfew after 8 pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6Fk7CbLLI

Ugh. Just saw in the Offbeat e-mail about new rules restricting music in the French Quarter.

Plus Offbeat had this sad news:

Just before dawn on Saturday, May 29, a tragedy occurred. Verti Marte, the neighborhood grocery whose massive sandwiches and po-boys were staples in the diets of many New Orleanians, burned. As is custom in our city, neighbors come together to help neighbors in their time of need. On Monday, join the community to support the employees of Verti Marte at the Dragon's Den (435 Esplanade Ave) for the Verti Marte Benefit Show which starts at 4 p.m. The event will include an art auction, raffle, door prizes and All That Jazz Po'Boys.

From the Offbeat magazine blog:

According to Serpas and 8th District Commander Major Edwin Hosli, the NOPD has received “numerous complaints from the residents of the Quarter” via NOMPAC concerning street musicians. Kevin Allman of Gambit has kept up with the news with several posts on this, and I’m upset and ashamed to tell you that it’s the same-old, same-old.

Apparently the To Be Continued Brass Band was being videoed last night on the corner of Canal and Bourbon Street, when the NOPD stopped the activity because of the “noise ordinance” which says that it is unlawful for anyone to perform any street entertainment on the street or sidewalk of Bourbon Street from the uptown side of Canal Street to the downtown side of St. Ann Street between the hours of 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. Can someone please tell me why it’s not OK to have street musicians playing during these hours on Bourbon Street, for pity’s sake? It’s not like there’s not a huge amount of noise—and I don’t mean music—on Bourbon Street during these hours. If you choose to live on or near Bourbon Street, and don’t expect to hear some music or noise, then you really should move to the suburbs. Please.

Oh yeah, it’s also illegal for persons to play musical instruments on public rights-of-way between the hours of 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. anywhere in the city.

What kind of idiocy are the people who complain about street music going to pull next? Why haven’t they cracked down on the non-live “music” on Bourbon Street?

This is an ordinance that is patently unfair to local musicians. It’s unfair to the people who come to New Orleans who expect to experience real music here. It’s destructive to our musical culture and the role the French Quarter plays in our musical heritage

The next NOMPAC a community meeting will be held on July 8, 2010 at 6 p.m. at the Maison Dupuy Hotel, 1001 Toulouse Street. If you’re a musician or a New Orleans music lover, and you’re not at this meeting to protest this, then shame on you.

more from that Offbeat editor's blogpost

I wonder what's changed in the Quarter, a lot of new residents? Who apparently moved to a street lined with bars without bar times for a little peace and quiet?

New residents plus new Police chief who all seem clueless

More news from Offbeat Magazine:

The End of an Era: The Mother-In-Law Lounge Closes

Sadly the Mother-In-Law Lounge, named after the Allen Toussaint-penned song that was performed by the late Ernie K-Doe, will soon close its doors.

K-Doe passed away in July 2001, and his widow Antoinette kept the bar as a tribute to her late husband and a quirky barroom that not only hosted R&B acts, but young performers, such as Quintron and many more. It was a gathering place for many a New Orleans music cognescenti, and was even included in a recent episode of HBO's Treme as the meeting place for the captains of the Krewe du Vieux.

Antoinette K-Doe died on Mardi Gras day in 2009, and it was hoped that the legacy of the bar would be continued by Mrs. K-Doe's family. But that was not to be. Betty Fox, Antoinette's daughter, has not been able to keep the bar operating, and she's closing it, according to recent Times-Picayune report.

Perhaps the Mother-In-Law should be added as one of those historic spots in New Orleans musical lore. Historic Landmarks Commission...get busy!

The brouhaha about citing street musicians who play after hours has subsided somewhat, as the protest from music lovers--both locally and outside New Orleans--was deafening. But the battle's not over year; it will resurface again unless we make a change in an overly broad ordinance and demand that our musical culture be given a chance to be enjoyed.

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/joyful_noises_and_joyless_ordinances_in_new_orleans_20100702/

more re the restrictions on brass bands

Trumpet player Lionel Ferbos is the coolest, and he's turning 99. See Offbeat e-mail thing below-

This week we celebrate the birthdays of trumpet player Lionel Ferbos (pictured) and guitarist Little Freddie King. On Saturday, Ferbos will celebrate his 99th birthday, cementing his role as the oldest active jazz musician in New Orleans. Not one to take a night off, he will be performing that evening with the Palm Court Jazz Band at the Palm Court Jazz Café at 8 p.m. Come out to celebrate and honor the beloved musician, who will be presented with awards from City Councilmember-at-large Jackie Clarkson and state representative Juan LaFonta. Monday marks the 70th birthday of Little Freddie King, but we can't wait that long to celebrate - we've already waited 70 years, and we're impatient. Tomorrow night, BJ's Lounge will host King's birthday bash at 10:30 p.m.

From Offbeat Editor Jan Ramsey's blog more on the battles between residents near and in commercial areas who are getting the police to use noise ordinaces to stop brass bands from performing on street corners:

One thing that stuck in my mind was that the residents at the meeting last week did not seem to comprehend that musicians make a living by playing on the street. I perceived a sort of elitist attitude from some of the residents at the meeting. To hear someone protest that the musicians are driving business away from the Quarter is patently absurd. A person who owns property on Frenchmen Street was the first person to speak at the event and said that two of her long-time tenants who live on Frenchmen near Chartres were leaving because of the noise of the brass band that occasionally plays on that corner. I don’t believe the band plays there every single evening, so this was sort of a lame excuse. And it also harks back to the fact that Frenchmen Street is a commercial entertainment area. If living almost inside an entertainment area bothers you, then you need to be living elsewhere.