Saw DJ Soul Sister retweet that Ropeman has died. He held the ropes in many New Orleans second lines
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
Aw, man... depressing.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
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.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
Damn. Ellis Marsalis at 85 . RIP
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link
wow. RIP
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
Complications from Corona. Fuck.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
No second lines allowed now.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-orleans-brass-band-musicians-relief-fund
RIP Ellis, never did get to see him play.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/zulu-coronavirus-deaths/289-4b03058c-87e5-46eb-b7ed-79965609f1f4
Zulu hit hard
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Contrast with this gem where he's all of 13:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-KFKcP41GE
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
Thanks.
Can I get a late pass for just starting to follow on Instagram @polonolaphotography and @akasharabut
Photographers
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 April 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-new-orleans-musicians/2020/04/09/fd5e2f84-774b-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
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.”
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 April 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
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
A https://www.wwoz.org/blog/640101
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 April 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
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.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
x-post -- Nice Mama's Digdown Bill Withers tribute
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
The above is tonight
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
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
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 21 August 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Nice
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 6 September 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
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)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Oh no
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
Cowbell Keem was 37.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
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 GangAn album from 2015 and a 2017 single . On Bandcamphttps://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/dead-and-gone🕸
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
have no idea how this compared to their earlier stuff, will check that out later.
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
*compares
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 October 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
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?
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link
damn, *79rs* Gang. I just woke up!
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
Really digging “About to Blow,” thanks!
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 24 October 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
Yes and “trouble” has that Mardi Gras Indian feel
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
I'm into it, I love the Indians music (especially when played by the brass bands, and a lot of brass band musicians are also involved with the Indians). It's always tough when people 'produce' this music because it's so perfect in its stripped-down form, but this record does a good job of keeping the energy and not overdoing the production. I like it a lot better than the funk band version of Indian music tbh (those Wild Tchoupitoulas records etc).
This one has musicians from Da Truth and Soul Rebels, with Derrick Tabb on snare:https://79rsgang.bandcamp.com/track/shot-that-signal
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 October 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.offbeat.com/news/kermit-ruffins-takes-to-instagram-to-announce-mother-in-law-lounge-is-open-for-business/
He raised some $ via a Go-Fund Me. Club had been shut down for violating Covid restrictions
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 November 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
TBC live set on Offbeat's fb page:https://www.facebook.com/offbeatmagazine/videos/1270215096676359/
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
My band finally got it together to put (almost) all of our albums on streaming services for the first time: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2tyjfI1efzg3PyHlS6mW1d?si=Ppa8Jb0uSlukV1GNQ97s5Q
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 November 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Kinda wish I could have had a brass band at the funeral for my 90 year old Dad last week. He was always more a Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins guy though. He did always speak fondly of New Orleans and the trip he and my Mom took there, and taking a cab to Snug Harbor to see Mose Allison
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Sorry to hear about your dad. My dad's take on jazz: "They're all just making this up as they go along, right?" That was a bug, not a feature, in his world.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
When I was in my 20s my Dad sneered at the rock I was listening to, and said I didn’t like it then, I don’t like it now. But my Dad who grew up going to NYC jazz clubs in the late 1940s and 50s, ended up listening to and liking all kinds of stuff up until the day he died— Youssou NDour, Talking Heads, Eddie Palmieri and more. He and I would talk and email about them, and he loved going down YouTube rabbit holes ( although my Frank Sinatra loving Mom is/ was not quite as appreciative). I guess I am very lucky to have had that
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
He became a Rolling Stones fan too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.feedthesecondline.org/
Thinking I may donate to these folks
After the success of Feed the Front Line NOLA, the Krewe of Red Beans has joined forces with Rouses Markets, Market Umbrella (operators of the Crescent City Farmers Market), the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic & Assistance Foundation, and the Preservation Hall Foundation to form Feed the Second Line.Feed the Second Line seeks to provide food-love and employment to our culture-bearers: musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid & Pleasure Club members, artists, and other cultural figures in the New Orleans community. We pair older, more vulnerable musicians and artists with their younger counterparts to assist them with shopping for their groceries and household needs. The benefits are two-fold: providing much needed groceries for free to the venerated culture-bearers of our great city, with contactless delivery to protect them from public exposure during the pandemic, while providing employment to the younger generation losing weeks, possibly months, of paying gigs.
https://vimeo.com/457795012
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
https://tipitinas.tv/?fbclid=IwAR2dOL9iM-suPRrWwt_QYd-P7QFRYFj5za0k-5i33pjM70NSPGOsCJG90pM
Tipitina's tv website and youtube page is showing Mardi Gras brass band doc now; also Sunday Feb 14 & on Mardi Gras
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
Sat, Feb 13, 2021 Streaming Schedule (All times in Central Standard Time):10am / Bury The Hatchet11:27am / Donald Harrison11:30am / Bayou Maharajah (James Booker)1:08pm / Henry Butler (2001)1:30pm / American Patchwork: Jazz Parades (“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”)2:28pm / Tipitina’s TV Exclusive2:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey3:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)4pm / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band5:30pm / Dr. John (2004)6pm / Bury The Hatchet7:27pm / Donald Harrison7:30pm / Bayou Maharajah (James Booker)9:08pm / Henry Butler (2001)9:30pm / American Patchwork: Jazz Parades (“Feet Don’t Fail Me Now”)10:28pm / Tipitina’s TV Exclusive10:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey11:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)12am / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band1:30am / Dr. John (2004)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwflNeY0HPM...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 February 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link