New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

Branford Marsalis is the guest editor, so I guess it was up to him, although it is interesting that he (rightfully so, I think) downplays the Marsalis reputation as the "first family of New Orleans jazz".

Part of a Reuters syndicated Billboard article

By Chris Walsh

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Tanio Hingle lived in a house in the Treme section of New Orleans with his wife and three kids, gigging around town with the New Birth Brass Band. The eight-piece played four or five times a week in places like Joe's Cozy Corner, Donna's Bar & Grill, Tipitina's and House of Blues.

Since Katrina, Hingle and his family have been living in an apartment in Houston; he drives back to New Orleans to repair the house when he's not playing shows. "We're still not back to normal. We're trying to get there," he says. "The insurance money wasn't enough to cover house repairs."

Today the band mostly plays shelters, schools and churches -- sometimes the airport. Hingle's been able to get one or two gigs a week, which come mostly as referrals from Bethany Bultman, co-founder and executive director of the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. Bultman set up the NOMC Emergency Fund last year, after Katrina.

"We're hoping to create opportunities for the musicians to play in shelters and schools," she says. "We want to keep the culture alive."

Support directly to NOMC includes approximately $80,000 from Bruce Springsteen, about $25,000-$30,000 from Bonnie Raitt, plus contributions from Huey Lewis, Pearl Jam and others. "Gig fees" from donors go directly to musicians. One goal: to save the traditional music of New Orleans.

NEW INSTRUMENTS

And NOMC's not alone in that mission. On Tuesday (August 29), the one-year anniversary of Katrina, the Tipitina's Foundation will host a ceremony at the legendary Tipitina's Uptown venue to hand over $500,000 in new instruments to 11 New Orleans school music programs. The ceremony will feature performances by Ivan Neville and the Original Uptown Allstars with the Dirty Dozen Horns, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, the Rebirth Brass Band and other locals [Soul Rebels]
Terence Blanchard is a Blue Note recording artist who wrote the soundtrack music to Spike Lee's four-hour documentary, "When the Levees Broke," which premiered in two parts on HBO August 21-22. A New Orleans native, Blanchard moved back to the city in March.

"It's not alive and well -- it's alive," he says of the state of music in his hometown. "Many of the musicians are still not home. Many are in Dallas and Houston. They actually travel from Dallas and Houston to New Orleans to play.

"When Spike (Lee) came to my old neighborhood, I wanted to show it off. But there was nothing alive there. No insects, rodents, birds, nothing. It was all dead. There's my house and the street where I used to play football with my friends and the picture window that I used to look out from while practicing my piano lessons."

Reuters/Billboard

http://www.neworleansnetwork.org/anniversary

In repeated nods to the city's extraordinary cultural past, Mr. Bush visited the home of the music legend Fats Domino in the Lower Ninth Ward and listened to a brass band. He talked about restoring the "soul" of New Orleans, even as he was forced to acknowledge that much of the damage had not yet been repaired. The city, he said, was calling its children home.

"I know you love New Orleans, and New Orleans needs you," Mr. Bush said. "She needs people coming home. She needs people -- she needs those saints to come marching back, is what she needs."

I saw some of Rebirth Brass on tv last night as the TV One network showed that SOng for New Orleans documentary.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901315.html

The Singles File
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; Page C05

-- Chris Richards

DJ BC: "Dirty Brass"

A wedding DJ from Boston strikes mash-up gold, coupling a vintage ODB verse with the hustling horns of New Orleans's Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Download it at http://djbc.net/mashes/wu .

The Singles File
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; Page C05

-- Chris Richards

DJ BC: "Dirty Brass"

A wedding DJ from Boston strikes mash-up gold, coupling a vintage ODB verse with the hustling horns of New Orleans's Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Download it at http://djbc.net/mashes/wu .

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/us/081201presidentbush/im:/060829/480/e7de6f11593e40c381a68613b689ee9b?sp=-1&lsp=3000

from the gumbopages Looka blog:
The Arabi Wrecking Krewe, a group of amazing volunteers who've been helping to bring musicians back to New Orleans and gutting their flooded homes for them, most recently took on the wrecked New Orleans East home of legendary saxophone player Kidd Jordan

The Rebirth Brass Band and some school bands at a Tipitina's Foundation event

(and probably a khaki work shirt, but we'll all be wearing the same thing...I'm one of the shorter guys with black hair, but not one of the two shorter guys with black hair who play the trumpet)

Treme needs someone to update their website (and the Stooges Brass Band apparently never decided to learn tech stuff from you Jordan, and keep that site updated). Treme want to release a new cd but don't have a label.

I can't get to the Louisiana Music Factory website right now, but it looks like the Original Pinstripe Brass Band has a new record out. They've got a more traditional style than Rebirth/Hot 8/Stooges/Soul Rebels/etc., but they're way funky.

There's another video of the Hot 8 up on youtube. It looks to me like they're playing at the big second line that happened in January, but I wasn't back in N.O. yet so I'm not sure. Anyone know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfOqPg4hKCc

And here's a piece about trad BB music I did for WWOZ the other day.

http://wwozstreettalk.blogspot.com/

Aug. 21st posting-
"Sousaphone player Jeffrey Hills is a family man with a wife and three kids. Before the storm, they lived in public housing and Jeffrey was known for playing with the big time Olympia Brass Band.

Since Katrina, the Hills have lived in three states, unable to find a way to return to the city. Now they're in Houston. Jeffrey makes the 5 hour commute every week to keep his regular gig at Harrah's Casino.

I caught up with him in between sets, hanging out in his car."

http://houstonpress.com/Issues/2006-10-19/news/feature_full.html

SAYING GOODBYE

Producer/engineer Keith Keller died [of a heart attack]September
6. At Chez Flames, his studio on Annunciation
Street, he produced a variety of musicians, from
Alex Chilton to G. Love and Special
Sauce to Rebirth Brass Band to King
Sonny Ade and Charlie Musselwhite. A jazz
funeral has been arranged to escort Keller’s ashes
to the Mississippi River, where some will be
scattered on the waters. The jazz funeral with the
Treme Brass Band starts Saturday at 1 p.m. at
the Backstreet Cultural Museum (1116 St. Claude
Ave.) and proceeds on St. Claude to St. Phillip, St.
Phillip to Rampart, Rampart to Conti, Conti to
Decatur, Decatur to Iberville and Iberville to
Woldenberg Park and the Mississippi. All are welcome
to help say goodbye to Keller.

What happened to Joe's son?

JOE GLASPER (LIL JOE & FAT) age 45 a retired construction worker and musician passed away on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 in Houston, TX. Joe is preceded in death by his father Joe Glasper, Jr., grandparents Antonia Bierria & Ethel Johnson, 2 uncles Jerry Johns & Irving Bierria, Jr. & 1 aunt, Margaret Thornton. He leaves to cherish his many precious memories his devoted wife, Karen Glasper; his mother, Rose Bierria Glasper; his daughter, Monsharda Wells; sons, Brian "Radio" Glasper, Burnell, Brodrick, Rodrick, Brandon Edwards & Linden Andrews; grandchildren, Terriell, Brodrell, Charrionda, Kirsten, Brodyana & Brodrick Edwards; godparents, Rudolph Whitehead & Joyce Daniels; godchildren, Terrineka Harden, Shantrell & Sharell Lamar, Tyronisha Andrews, Michael Ross & Marlen Lawson Jr; 12 uncles; 18 aunts; 3 great aunts; mother in law, Gloria Wells; fathers-in-law, Joseph Tadlock, Antoine Barriere Jr., brothers- in-law, Matthew Brock III, Antoine Barriere III & Eleath Tate and a host of relatives & friends. Relatives and friends of the family, graduates of the 1979 Class of McDonald 35; members of Southern University Marching Band, Sidewalk Steppers, First Lady, Original Jolly Bunch & all Social & Pleasure Clubs, Rebirth, Lil Rascals, Treme, Preservation Hall, New Birth Brass Bands, patrons of Joe's Cozy Corner Bar, Uptown & Downtown Neighborhood Bars, Community Barber Shop; The Hume Child Care Center, High Dimension Church, Hair by Roz, GQ Barber Shop, Milton's Barber Shop, Lapitte Academy & Westside Senior High School, Day Zimmerman Security, Bee's Car Wash, & Fairfields Complex all of Houston, TX are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial on Saturday, November 4, 2006, 11:00am, at St. Augustine Catholic Church, 1210 Gov. Nicholls St., New Orleans, LA 70116 . Visitation will be held from 9:00am until the hour of service. A Traditional Jazz Funeral will follow with Interment at Holt Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, November 3, 2006 at St. Augustine Catholic Church from 5-8pm. Professional Funeral Services, Inc. "Divine Service for a Divine People" 1620 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, LA.

Neeta Ragoowansi of SoundExchange has money for
Louisiana artists. The company has royalties for
many local artists, and they need to be disbursed by
December 15 or the artists will lose
them.

The following artists or their
representatives or their estates need to get in
touch with Ragoowansi as soon as possible: Clifton
Chenier (pictured), the Dixie Cups, Clarence
“Frogman” Henry, Lazy Lester, Kenny Peal, Chris
Ardoin and Double Clutchin’, Ernie K-Doe, Dirty
Dozen Brass Band, Queen Ida, Angelica Maria, Chris
Thomas King, Beau Jocque, Big Tymers, Jean Knight,
Sidney Bechet, New Orleans Classic Jazz Orchestra,
Joe Jones, Barbara George, Danny Barker, Bruce
Daigrepont, Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns, Smiley
Lewis, George Lewis, James Booker, Storyville, Bunk
Johnson, Roosevelt Sykes, New Orleans Blue
Serenaders, Snooks Eaglin, Johnny Wiggs, Mannie
Fresh, Chris Tyle’s New Orleans Rover Boys, Sweet
Emma Barrett, Earl King, New Orleans Ragtime
Orchestra, Eddie Bo, Paul Barbarin, Jimmie Noone,
The N’Orleans Statesmen, Papa Don’s New Orleans Jazz
Band, Earl Scheelar’s Funky New Orleans, Lonnie
Johnson, George Girard, Connee Boswell, Edmond Hall,
Kid Howard, Tangle Eye, Capt. John Handy’s New
Orleans Jazz, Soilent Green, Deadeye Dick, Choppa,
Sing Miller, Armand Hug, Nicholas Payton, Exhorder,
Percy Humphrey, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Sam
Butera, Blue Lu Barker, Mia X, Albert Burbank, Lisa
Angelle, New Orleans Blue Serenaders and New Orleans
Ragtime Orchestra. Ragoowansi can be contacted by
calling 212-713-1677 or emailing
neeta@soundexchange.com.

The Quarter will be open Sunday for “Down By the
Riverside: A Concert of Thanksgiving” at
Woldenberg Park. The free show presented by the
New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation runs from 1-5
p.m. and features Craig Klein and the Arabi
Wrecking Krewe All-Stars—Stanton Moore, Dr. Michael
White, Deacon John, Marlon Jordan, Matt Perrine,
Rick Trolsen, Leroy Jones, Mark Breaux, Freddie
Lonzo, Topsy Chapman, Bob French, Bruce “Sunpie”
Barnes, Benny Jones, “Uncle” Lionel Batiste, Kirk
Joseph and more. All have put in their time with
the Arabi Wrecking Krewe helping to gut musicians’
houses, and Sunday they play together for the first
time.

STOP THE VIOLENCE

Friday at 1 p.m. the Anirtak Theater—formerly the
State Palace—plays host to the Stop the
Violence Hip-Hop Town Hall Meeting. The
recent
violence that has erupted in New Orleans and
particularly in Central City has brought local
hip-hop artists BG, Mia X, Joe
Blakk, Head-Roc,
DJ Jubilee, Sess 4-5, Fifth Ward
Weedie, and L.O.G. together to address
the problem. This town hall meeting is sponsored by
the Hip-Hop Caucus Institute with the goal of
creating a youth coalition to oppose violence and
help bring about social justice.