New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

Dvr’ing that, .

In more upbeat news , saw a video clip on twitter of Big 6 playing on a porch in the evening sounding great. An Offbeat mag tweet

https://www.nola.com/news/article_2015a954-90bd-11eb-819c-d363b523d93e.html

RIP

Keelian Boyd Sr., an artist and celebrated big chief of the Young Maasai Hunters, died Sunday of heart failure at the Ochsner Health Center in Chalmette. He was 37.

Boyd, a crane operator at Domino Sugar in Arabi, launched the Young Maasai Hunters tribe in 2018, emerging on Mardi Gras morning in a stunning purple suit with two perfectly suspended wings extending from the side of his crown. Before that he had been mostly behind the scenes in the Black masking Indian culture, also known as Mardi Gras Indians, as a "hook-up man," basically an advisor called in at clutch moments to help other Indians finish their suits

21st Century Brass Band released an album and it's hard:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3AmfQNsRiPdzMCLrrdEC6Z?si=5ygm98xDSlaqMHMnUrhEaQ

Also 'I Wanna Go Back Outside' must be the first brass band tune about the pandemic

"I Wanna Go Back Outside" by 21st Century Brass sounds good. Will check out the rest.

Not always crazy about Offbeat Magazine, but sometimes it has provided good coverage. They have a go fund me going

We are closing our Frenchmen Street office, where we've been located since 1998, because we can no longer afford the rent in this location. We are having to get rid of decades' worth of OffBeat Magazine copies, photos, posters, books and more so we can move to a smaller location within the New Orleans Jazz Museum at 400 Esplanade Avenue (located in the Old U.S. Mint). We need your help more than ever!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-offbeat-magazine

offbeat is brutally corny but i love the tireless/guileless energy that leads them to run like 1000 word reviews of some papa grows funk cd called "red beans and fais do do: live on dumaine st"

i will probably give them some money just for providing me free reading material for bus and streetcar rides for 15 years

In my early days of going to Jazzfest, pre-internet, you didn't know stages and times for acts until you hit town and picked up an Offbeat, so for providing me those few moments of joyous scribbling and highlighting they will always be a great memory.

WWOZ is doing a jazz fest in place through the weekend

More sad news . Via a Ned Sublette email:

Terry Gibson, Jr., trumpeter with Sporty's Brass Band in New Orleans, died suddenly on the night of April 12 at the age of 29.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/terry-gibson-jr-home-going

https://www.offbeat.com/news/young-trumpeter-terry-gibson-jr-passes-awayterry-gibson-1991-2021/

Obit names all the bands Gibson was in , talks about his European gigs, and a brief mention of his backing Beyonce on a trip she made to New Orleans

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-new-doc-shines-a-loving-light-on-the-new-orleans-jazz-funeral?fbclid=IwAR1FFRon3dUOuB8JkP_St4254YdxldlM2psCAnC5QmWMbm26_GsNHcOuQ0U

article by someone unfamiliar with brass bands on new movie doc by writer Jason Berry on New Orleans and brass called City of a Million Dreams . I heard Berry speak once. Impressive guy

In 2018 Berry released a book with that title. Now comes the movie doc

Satchmo SummerFest from July 31 to August 1.

Jazzfest October 8 to 17th

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_dd165cba-cd85-11eb-af26-23891ed8d5f9.html

French Quarter Fest in October will be Thursday through Saturday as city of New Orleans said it would be too hard to provide police for a Sunday FQF day and a Saints game

First official post-pandemic second line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF0zLo9BEaQ

Yeah, I guess.

So the fall JazzFest has been announced and eh whatever.

https://www.hnoc.org/publications/books/dancing-streets

Judy Cooper book on New Orleans social clubs and second lines

DANCING IN THE STREETS
SOCIAL AID AND PLEASURE CLUBS OF NEW ORLEANS

Judy Cooper, with essays by Rachel Carrico, Freddi Williams Evans, Charles “Action” Jackson, Matt Sakakeeny, and Michael G. White

2021 Jazzfest cancelled due to Delta variant Covid

I'm scheduled to be there then, playing a wedding and some other gigs. We will see?

Sorry. Was thinking many folks had already bought plane tickets, made reservations, etc but the unvaccinated were not thinking about that

The cancellation of Jazz Fest is actually the second major blow of the past week; two days ago, we lost Charles “Action” Jackson, WWOZ radio host and one of the staunchest advocates and stewards of NOLA brass band and second line culture. Check out “Takin It to the Streets” on ‘OZ’s website if you’re not familiar with him, and spread the word about him if you are. He will be greatly missed. R.I.P.

I'm gonna miss "It's your BOY!"

RIP, it changed the game when I could actually look online and see second line dates & routes, instead of having to text somebody in the band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CSacbXHeg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwoz/albums/72157719667600746/

Photos from a pop up second line for Action Jackson

https://prog.tsharp.xyz/en/riiff/39/film/6926/City-of-a-Million-Dreams

New Orleans movie showing for free online via this fest only through August 18

https://www.thedailybeast.com/congo-square-under-siege-the-latest-threat-to-black-cultures-ground-zero-in-new-orleans?fbclid=IwAR2bczt5xagrpPxdJ_Yzr0_lFVH9TuDuZwnCjbFnRvnhuv1LLcSc3OnKsZQ

Article about Congo Square and the Jason Berry movie doc City of a Million Dreams

Good luck New Orleans

Going to see Rebirth in Rhode Island on Wednesday. They'll be playing with heavy hearts, I'm sure.

Bennie Pete, founder and leader of the Hot 8 Brass Band, has passed. R.I.P.

Oh no!

Hasn’t been officially reported yet AFAIK but a tuba-playing friend told me, and the news is going around facebook.

I heard as well, RIP. It hasn't hit me yet but he was one of the kindest people I've ever met, just a big-hearted mountain.

Seeing it on twitter too. Googling I see he has had health issues since 2014. Had seizures then . So sad . In his 40s

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_49b3a9ba-2f5f-5bfa-b1ed-6712c1638d09.html

Big 6 Brass band is struggling due to Hurricane Ida. Asking for $ to their Cash App on Instagram

https://www.wwoz.org/blog/675736

Uncle Lionel’s brother, musician Norman Baptiste died back in August I see

Norman Batiste

We're doing a fundraiser on Friday, will be distributing proceeds to our New Orleans brass band community: https://www.facebook.com/events/277709660554623

Same for everything from the Mama Digdown's and Youngblood Brass Band bandcamp pages.

Found this incredible archival footage of Hot 8 from 1996, almost 2 hours long, apparently digitized from Bennie Pete's VHS copy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprSGzqvpc8

Wow...

Jazz Festing in place starts again today through Sunday on WWOZ. Many great archival performances (the Longhair fire benefit show is amazing.)

https://www.wwoz.org/683706-cubes-jazz-festing-place-fall-2021

Oh thanks for posting. Had forgotten about that

Some repeats from previous programs (Duke Ellington from the very first fest, good enough that I didn't mind rehearing it.) And some performers I'm not at all interested in, but that's Jazzfest.

For those in New Orleans between October 7 and 17th, I see a bunch of New Orleans clubs are hyping their shows at this specially created website

https://www.neworleans.com/nolaxnola/

I'll be there 15th - 18th. Not much I want to see listed but will check with the brass bands, and going the second line for sure.

How was your visit Jordan?

So the March 2022 Big Ears Fest is gonna have an event of sort coordinated by Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall Jazz with Sporty's Brass Band and Haitian bands

As the living embodiment of the acoustic New Orleans jazz tradition, the generations of Preservation Hall had learned as much as they could about the music from the city itself. In recent years, exploratory travels into Cuba and Haiti have led to acclaimed documentaries and albums where the band delves deeper than ever into its native soil. The glee of discovery is palpable as they find roots that lead all the way to West Africa, to France, to many diasporic places.

In 2018, they joined Regine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire to inaugurate the annual Krewe Du Kanaval in New Orleans. A celebratory tribute to the parades, costumes, and music of Creole culture, it will be tailored to The Mill & Mine by Ben Jaffe, the creative director of Preservation Hall. Taking place in and around the venue, the immersive, episodic experience brings together Haitian music heavyweights from across the festival for an experience replete with unique sets and decorations; drumming, dancing, and chance encounters; and DJs deepening the NOLA-Haiti connection. In addition to Preservation Hall, the lineup includes 79rs Gang, who fuse Mardi Gras Indian music with hip-hop; Lakou Mizik, the leading acoustic Haitian roots-music revivalists; RAM, the globally renowned group that electrified vodou music; and Sporty’s Brass Band, one of the best second-line units in New Orleans.

That Big Ears fest is in Knoxville, Tenn

It was really good, thanks. Saw Sporty's Brass Band at Bullets (crushed it), 21st Century Brass Band at the Music Box Village for a brunch gig (a curious but well-intentioned outdoor art space), and TBC at the Treme Hideaway (Derrick Tabb's place) (crushed it). And Treme BB outside Vaughan's, that was nice and wholesome (Corey Henry on trombone). Caught up with Donna, who's writing about about Donna's and brass band history. Learned a lot as always. Never going to Verdi Mart again in my life (was never a fan anyways), but Quarter Grocery is standing strong.

Oh man, I somehow misremembered that Donna had passed away. So glad that's not the case!

I had plane tix and a hotel reserved for beginning of October, but then Ida went through ands Sun Country cancelled my flight.

I'm working my way through Jazzfest sets on WWOZ's Festing in Place, and TBC is one of the best things I've heard so far. The way they weave rap and pop hits into their songs reminds me of DC gogo.

what does vaughan's smell like inside now that you can't smoke anymore?