New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

Was in Houston where I saw a brass band playing on the corner outside the Houston Astros stadium. I immediately thought they might be all refugees from New Orleans. I was wrong. The Pink Sand Brass Band is predominantly made up of music majors from the Bahamas that attend Prairie View A & M, a historically Black university in Prairie View , Texas

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/obituaries/henry-butler-dead.html

New Orleans pianist who died from cancer. He also photographed Mardi Gras celebrants, street scenes and the wreckage of his Mason & Hamlin piano after Katrina; his photographs were in the traveling exhibition “Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists.”

I like this video of the Big 6 Brass Band at a Popeyes in New Orleans. They get the employees to dance. Am following the band now on twitter, where they have tweeted and retweeted some good New Orleans stuff

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Miu90sh_9yM

They're the second line band to beat rn, the two sousaphone players in particular just rip.

love it

Just saw a review of movie doc One Note at a Time, that includes Uncle Lionel B and Hot 8 and Irma Thomas and more. Some of it is about how the Louisiana Musicians Clinic helps New Orleans musicians. Was apparently first show in 2016 there, but is getting wider distribution now.

https://neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/2017/05/23/one-note-time-film-trailer/

There's a documentary on Leroy Jones coming out too:
http://www.theleroyjonesstory.com/
https://youtu.be/iw4BKbn6k0M

New Youngblood covers EP too:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5ICLCgbh6VBwO1VOnA7GZG?si=Zg59RI2TQaq6U_hoP8sxVg

That Youngblood Brass cover of Rihanna “Umbrella “ is nice if a tad too relaxed.

Hmmm, wonder if Jordan has some fave New Orleans releases for 2018?

Man, I wish I did, but there's been a dearth of (good) brass band albums lately. The older bands either haven't been putting out much or I haven't been feeling it, like a certain band with a UK label (sorry).

The younger bands sound amazing on the street but aren't translating that to records for the most part. Big 6 put out a mixtape, but they sounded so much better at the second line: https://soundcloud.com/user-60647372/micheal-jackson-black-or-white

TBC posted a couple of nice singles (with Kabuki on trumpet, nice to hear him again), hopefully they'll put out a record next year:
https://soundcloud.com/tbc-brass-band/mbk-we-at-celebration-hall-every-wednesday-night

https://soundcloud.com/tbc-brass-band/tbc-fire-water-feat-spyboy-juwan-bordreaux

On the traditional side, I like this Mark Braud album with Herlin Riley on drums, especially this cut. None of his stuff is on streaming services but this one is on Soundcloud for some reason.
https://soundcloud.com/user-618715822/trouble?in=user-618715822/sets/living-the-tradition

Oh and Youngblood Brass Band's new EP of covers that I posted above.

Thanks

I'm playing at this in a few weeks, apparently the first brass band-focused festival in New Orleans (can that be true?):
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TBC, Stooges, Hot 8, Cheeky Blakk, DJ Jubilee, second line dance-off, it sounds like heaven.

Oh well, it's this, but they haven't posted the full flyer/lineup on the site yet (just on facebook) -- http://nolabrassfest.com/

that is a highly new orleanian website

haha

Amazing weekend, from playing at the brass band fest and seeing all the bands in one spot (+ Phil Frazier getting honored, that was emotional because he's not in the best of health), to playing a party with the Stooges BB, to the second line on Sunday.

Put some little bits up on instagram, there's a lot more on facebook etc.

Hallelujah, a new TBC Brass Band studio album --
https://open.spotify.com/album/52NjIcq4D5sNpzwPIUpV4G?si=OPC3hr1ETLyVFMNnBhe1LA

Only tangentially related, and I'm not sure if this stuff is your thing at all, but Jordan have you caught Naughty Professor? One of my favorite discoveries at Jazzfest this year. Super talented musicians, and tight arrangements that go a lot of different places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiK3Psi1zE

ooooh, got to check out that new TBC album. ALso, Everytime I delve into Instagram posts, the 2nd line parade ones make me wanna get back back there

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/12/new-orleans-brass-band-arrest-police-book-store/

Friday September 20 at Gateway Pavilion in Washington DC it’s New Orleans vs DC— Featuring Big Six Brass Band of New Orleans, and DC’s own Proper Utensils feat. Jas Funk, Black Alley, and DJ Supa Dan. Plus New Orleans and Washington cuisine.

Oooh, I love a good battle

It was fun.

Brass and International band fest coming up in New Orleans looks good.

http://www.offbeat.com/news/congo-square-rhythms/

who won

No declared winner, and different styles , but I might give Big 6 a slight edge ( shhhh, don’t tell any DC locals I said that)

Just saw the 2018 video of Hot 8 Brass doing Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart (again)”. It’s also on their 2019 Take Cover ep that appears to be available from bandcamp but not on Spotify
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuTK-E0gxo

RIP bounce rap artist 5th Ward Weebie. I think there’s a second line for him tonight

Oh damn, really?

https://b97.radio.com/blogs/speedy/rip-to-nola-legend-5th-ward-weebie

Had been in the hospital for a bit. Not sure what happened. Twitter was showing scheduled nightly vigils for him in the hope that he would recover

RIP Lucien Barbarin, trombonist for Harry Connick Jr, Preservation Hall, great-nephew of Paul Barbarin, etc.

Just saw that. He got a second line ( video clip from someone is on twitter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuD5dejXb_M

I'll be there at the end of the month for a friend's wedding (currently working on booking a brass band, of course), and then back the next weekend to play the 2nd annual brass band festival: http://nolabrassfest.com/

Also we're at Tipitina's the night before: https://www.tipitinas.com/e/save-our-brass-culture-foundation-presents-brass-fest-kick-off-party-94427514237/

My new source for long second-line videos is a youtube account called 'urban mommy'

Thanks.

seattle and new york brass band: https://thewesterliesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wherein-lies-the-good

A 2019 movie doc called Up From the Streets , that purports to cover all of New Orleans music history is gonna show at a DC indie doc fest in March. Terrence Blanchard is the narrator.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/new-orleans-black-bars-second-lines.html?referringSource=articleShare

Don’t usually agree with them but here’s Offbeat magazine’s best of 2019 that includes Soul Rebels “Poetry in Motion” album as their best brass band winner. Rebels also won for best video

http://www.offbeat.com/news/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2019-best-of-the-beat-music-awards/

Two weekends in a row of second lines and seeing all the bands, it was amazing, too much to say. NOLA Brass Fest was a really beautiful event this year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9c2M_qFq7A/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MWHD0EI_YQ
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ccxGPn_TO/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9dU5Z6DiXH/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9c8NR8H8Qx/

I am jealous

not really brass band but this video is amazing, people don't believe me when i try to tell them what high school marching bands sound like in new orleans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFsuy9kOf3M

that video rules

Nice. Btw Adam, we closed out Saturday night at Vaughan's, Mickey (who used to bartend at Donna's for years) was behind the bar, and the owner lady says hi to you.

aw that's sweet, i hope yall had a good time!

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_785f2510-6d49-11ea-b521-6f07f4be4785.html

Phil Frazier of Rebirth Brass has coronavirus. Virus Has spread a lot in New Orleans area

Ronald Lewis , 9th Ward founder of House of Dance & Virus died at 68 from the coronavirus. Also New Orleans bounce dj Black n Mild (Oliver Stokes) died at 44