New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

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

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

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

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

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

TBC live set on Offbeat's fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/offbeatmagazine/videos/1270215096676359/

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

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

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.

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

He became a Rolling Stones fan too

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

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

Sat, Feb 13, 2021 Streaming Schedule (All times in Central Standard Time):
10am / Bury The Hatchet
11:27am / Donald Harrison
11:30am / 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 Exclusive
2:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey
3:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)
4pm / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band
5:30pm / Dr. John (2004)
6pm / Bury The Hatchet
7:27pm / Donald Harrison
7:30pm / 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 Exclusive
10:30pm / The Promised Land: A Swamp Pop Journey
11:47pm / Bruce Daigrepont (2004)
12am / Never A Dull Moment: 20 Years of the Rebirth Brass Band
1:30am / Dr. John (2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwflNeY0HPM...

Thanks for the heads up!

https://www.nola.com/gambit/film/article_1cdae2d0-6a44-11eb-a0b1-a337d5e58660.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twittergambit&utm_campaign=snd&fbclid=IwAR3X5CGay0G2lN8gO_KcXhm1-gFEcdaP9tUqis0iGXO7CgdKoJHZWAvSw38

Some great old school brass band and second line footage earlier

More docs today Sunday

The Tipitina's virtual film festival continues today with the following lineup, which starts at 11am central and then repeats at 5:30pm.
11am Buckjumping
12:07pm Anders Osborne (2020)
12:30pm All On A Mardi Gras Day
1:30pm Treme Brass Band (2006)
2pm Tuba To Cuba
3:24pm Tipitina’s.TV Exclusive: Float Houses!
3:30pm Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music
5:14pm The Wild Magnolias (2004)
5:30pm Buckjumping
6:37pm Anders Osborne (2020)
7pm All On A Mardi Gras Day
8pm Treme Brass Band (2006)
8:30pm Tuba To Cuba
9:54pm Tipitina’s.TV Exclusive: Float Houses!
10pm Up From The Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music
11:44pm The Wild Magnolias (2004)

Buckjumping is really good, even if there's very brass band content to speak of (they use studio records over the second line footage for some reason). Good slice-of-live interviews & footage (w/out narration) of Mardi Gras Indian practice, marching bands, bounce nights, etc.

Thanks so much for the heads-up re: the Tipitina's doc fest!
I just passed the link on to my dad, since him and I have been to both New Orleans and Havana together and I figured he'd especially get a lot out of it.

They are showing some of the docs again on Tuesday the 16th. I saw some of all of Bury the Hatchet, Feet Don’t Fail Me Now, the Rebirth doc, All on a Mardi Gras Day, & Tuna to Cuba and have enjoyed and learned a lot.

Have previously seen the James Booker Bayou Maharajah one, and Up from the Streets. Both worth seeing

I've seen the James Booker & Rebirth docs, both good. Would like to catch that Treme Brass Band one.