New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

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

Phil just can't catch a break. :(

Putting this here because no one else will care: a few months ago I picked up a $1.99 copy of Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton (on Verve, 1997) and man I love this. It helps that I saw Doc at Jazzfest around that time, but it’s a super lovely mix of ballads and swingin’ tunes, with my new favorite version of “Stardust.” I’ve returned to it again and again. Best two bucks spent recently.

That sounds great

I didn’t know there’s a Grammy for best jazz solo, but Doc won it in 1998 for his solo on “Stardust.”

https://youtu.be/cUK_wkCuRp4

Soothing music for troubling times.

Saw DJ Soul Sister retweet that Ropeman has died. He held the ropes in many New Orleans second lines

Club d.b.a. for sale. Sealed bids only . C’mon folks . One of us has to win the lottery and then we can all own it

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_016d7bca-73b4-11ea-8840-ff4e857333d4.html

Aw, man... depressing.

DBA was such a godsend when it opened, one of the few places to get a craft brew when Abita was pretty much the only game in town. I consumed many Anchor Liberty Ales there. I agree, Frenchmen Street is a much crazier place than it was twenty years ago, but I hope they can continue.

Damn. Ellis Marsalis at 85 . RIP

wow. RIP

Oh, no! RIP. He closed out last year in the jazz tent at Fest with all his sons, but I didn’t go. Opted for Al Green.

Complications from Corona. Fuck.

No second lines allowed now.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-orleans-brass-band-musicians-relief-fund

RIP Ellis, never did get to see him play.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/zulu-coronavirus-deaths/289-4b03058c-87e5-46eb-b7ed-79965609f1f4

Zulu hit hard

On a lighter note, someone got Derrick "Kabuki" Shezbie to record a Buddy Bolden-themed trad album (his first solo record in 26 years):

https://youtu.be/0-_9YPzP2PQ

Contrast with this gem where he's all of 13:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-KFKcP41GE

Thanks.

Can I get a late pass for just starting to follow on Instagram @polonolaphotography and @akasharabut

Photographers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-new-orleans-musicians/2020/04/09/fd5e2f84-774b-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html

Stafford Agee, trombone player for the Rebirth Brass Band — which received a Grammy for Best Regional Roots Album in 2011 — said that while he was able to ride out March on his savings, now he’s worried how he’ll pay the bills and support his four children.
“My ‘riding out’ is done,” he said. “I’m rode out. … We’re in another month now.”

The article notes Agee in the past has done contractor and electrical work to pay bills but he isn’t getting that kind of business now either. The article does say that Phil F of Rebirth is feeling better.

Also from W Post article:

Three days a week on the sidewalk outside his closed club, Howlin’ Wolf, Kaplan distributes a couple hundred takeout containers of food to musicians and hospitality workers.

Here's another article on Phil Frazier re how he survived 2 strokes and now Covid-19

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_11dbff9a-7b48-11ea-b406-5b09e696d81f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=nolafb&utm_campaign=snd&fbclid=IwAR3yvgY2u5GASlcid20tk-wCej0l8rYIWlWCoeiAADyhGxelAHbOstHSUI0

WWOZ is doing virtual French Quarter Fest (and will do virtual Jazzfest the next two weeks.) Some great in-studio performance video so far: Pinettes Brass Band, John 'Papa' Gros backed by Naughty Professor, and Honey Island Swamp Band.

I listened to some of the WWOZ Jazzfest in place. Irma sounded great. I missed some brass bands. Will have to check the archives.

More sad news: Big Al Carson, blues singer On bourbon street and was also a tuba player with some trad brass bands at 66. Photo on link is old. He reportedly had lost a bunch of weight.

https://www.wwoz.org/blog/640101

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Cross-posting this here (glad to see the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund has raised some money):

Mama Digdown's Brass Band finally finished the Bill Withers tribute we recorded after he passed, it took awhile to figure out recording in our separate homes and putting a video together:
https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown/videos/3043741569039500/

All proceeds go to the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund:
https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/just-the-two-of-us-2

Alfred "Uganda" Roberts died this morning at the age of 77. Roberts first came to prominence in New Orleans music as the percussionist with Professor Longhair.

x-post -- Nice Mama's Digdown Bill Withers tribute

Thank you, thank you and thank you again for your donations to the New Orleans Brass Band Relief Fund!! As part of a final push for donations to this fund, we’re bringing ya’ll a special Brass Band Blowout livestream tomorrow, June 28th at 8PM CT. We’ll be featuring six of the best of New Orleans brass: Slow Rollas Brass Band, Young Fellaz Brass Band, Young Pinstripes Brass Band, Glen David Andrews, New Orleans Nightcrawlers and Rebirth Brass Band. Tune in on the NOLA Brass Fest Facebook page

The above is tonight

Another recorded-at-home track from us, inspired by hearing the Soul Rebels play it way back in the day, proceeds go to Roots of Music:

https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/outstanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tTRTb44Ro

Nice

https://www.nola.com/news/article_1459824c-ee25-11ea-9ad5-d7739ac95bd9.html

Junior Robertson died at 91 . He owned the bar Junior’s Place that was later called Little People’s Place.

Bass drummer “Uncle” Lionel Batiste often played the bar’s ashtrays like drums and other men would pick up the cowbell or washboard and sing along. Patrons danced to Robertson’s favorite blues records played on the jukebox or to classic hits played by DJs like Verna Mae Jones and record producer Walter Moorehead. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band played there in the mid-1970s, as did Benny Jones with his earliest incarnation of the Treme Brass Band. It was a stop for every downtown second-line parade on Sunday afternoon and the home base for the Downtowners Social Aid and Pleasure Club

https://www.nola.com/gambit/music/article_7ce0bd54-0468-11eb-954b-ab712e15cd77.html

Can New Orleans clubs ( especially Black-owned ones) survive without federal aid

Damn, this is a funeral for TBC Brass Band's cowbell player, apparently stabbed to death :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhMkjq32hRg

(also a rare all-trombone front line, and they're crushing)

Oh no

Cowbell Keem was 37.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/01/12/jermaine-bossier-79rs-gang-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview🕸/

I've been snoozing on this Mardi Gras group the 79rs Gang

An album from 2015 and a 2017 single . On Bandcamp

https://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/dead-and-gone🕸

have no idea how this compared to their earlier stuff, will check that out later.

*compares

btw, the post I quoted is from curmudgeon, from January 2018.

49rs Gang aren’t a brass band obviously, so I’m not even sure this is the right thread to discuss them - but maybe it is, thru the NO / Mardi Gras connection? Is there a more suitable thread?

damn, *79rs* Gang. I just woke up!

Really digging “About to Blow,” thanks!

Yes and “trouble” has that Mardi Gras Indian feel