New Orleans Brass Bands S/D

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?

Lol, I didn't go inside this time since there was a whole scene outside, although I did last time and it was pretty pleasant actually.

Listening to a Trombone Shorty set on OZ and toward the end there was a a rapper throwing down some great hard James Brown style funk. Had to do some research, as I am unfamiliar with 99% of rap created since "Bust A Move." Turns out it was Mystikal doing "Shake It Fast" (sic) and it's on youtube. I like it way better than the original recording.

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

Playing with the inimitable Swamp Thing: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVngGl7FBJT/

Nice .

RSVP for next Saturday’s (11/20 2:30pm CT) virtual @WordsandMusicNO event feat. @khdpoetry, whose article, "Oh Casanova," is in @64parishes; @RebirthBB’s Keith Frazier; Michael Ferguson, former music dir of LeVert; and Marc Gordon of LeVert. I’ll moderate the conversation. Free

That’s a cut and paste of a Dj Soul Sister tweet. Panel will address how that r’n’b song became a brass band fave

More press emails to me. Rebirth and Davell Crawford and others are also part of this thing

NOLAxNOLA ‘21: Show Your Love! A Virtual Celebration of New Orleans is a landmark virtual fundraiser event showcasing never-before-seen performances and more by some of New Orleans’ most iconic artists and legends, all benefiting community-based nonprofits dedicated to fostering the music culture of New Orleans. Powered by the digital fundraising platform Fandiem, NOLAxNOLA ‘21: Show Your Love! A Virtual Celebration of New Orleans is set for November 19 and 20, beginning both nights at 9 PM (ET)/8 PM (CT), free to view exclusively via www.nolaxnola.com.

NOLAxNOLA ‘21: Show Your Love! A Virtual Celebration of New Orleans will feature electrifying live performances from an array of New Orleans artists, spanning up-and-coming talent, rising stars, and undisputed musical royalty including Irma Thomas, The Revivalists, Big Freedia, Galactic, Tank and the Banga

OST SPOTTED: the hot 8 joy divison cover in venom: let there be carnage

Nice.

I watched a Sporty's Brass Band IG Live recently that was great.

RIP Sandra Jaffe who helped preserve jazz @ Preservation Hall (along with her husband who had died in 1987)

Preservation Hall was integrated at a time when there were still Jim Crow laws that banned the mixing of races. Mrs. Jaffe was once arrested there, along with Kid Thomas Valentine’s band, for flouting the ban on integration.

“The judge banged his gavel and said, ‘In New Orleans, we don’t like to mix our coffee and cream,’” Ben Jaffe said, recalling what his parents had told him. “She burst out laughing and said, ‘That’s funny — the most popular thing in New Orleans is café au lait.’”

more from article- In 1961, Sandra and Allan Jaffe stopped in New Orleans on their way home to Philadelphia from an extended honeymoon in Mexico. They heard music playing all around them in the French Quarter and stepped into an art gallery on St. Peter Street where a combo was playing traditional jazz.

The Jaffes, then in their 20s, were transformed by what they heard. They came back a few days later to hear the combo again. The gallery’s owner, Larry Borenstein, told them that he was moving his business next door and offered to rent the couple the modest space (31 by 20 feet) for $400 a month.

“We didn’t even think twice about it,” Mrs. Jaffe told the alumni magazine of Harcum College, from which she graduated, in 2011. “‘Of course,’ we said, and that was the beginning of Preservation Hall. We never left New Orleans.”

Preservation Hall — which serves no alcohol, seats 50 or so on six benches and had no air-conditioning until 2019 — has celebrated jazz for 60 years in a city widely regarded as its birthplace. It defied segregation laws in the early 1960s. It survived Mr. Jaffe’s death in 1987, and it survived Hurricane Katrina. The coronavirus pandemic shut it down, but it reopened triumphantly in June.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/arts/music/sandra-jaffe-who-helped-preserve-jazz-at-preservation-hall-dies-at-83.html

Backstreet Cultural Museum struggles and is displaced but is trying to raise funds for new Treme locale and/or in Treme a "yearlong lease on a back house on the African American Museum’s campus. While Ms. Francis-Dilling is still trying to raise funds to make the deal possible, she is hoping to reopen in the new space early next year."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/25/us/backstreet-cultural-museum-new-orleans.html

In two small rooms, the Backstreet Cultural Museum chronicled life and death in Black New Orleans.

One was filled entirely with elaborate beaded and feathered suits that debuted on Mardi Gras mornings and were designed by makers known as “Mardi Gras Indians” or “Black Masking Indians.” The other featured solemn photographs of jazz funerals and memorial T-shirts, displayed in a handmade wooden case, that honored lives lost to gunfire. A rudimentary stand held a red tuba played by Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen, a jazz musician who traveled the world performing but played for tips in the French Quarter any time he was home.

But over the past 16 months, the museum has suffered cataclysmic losses. In late August 2020, Sylvester Francis, its founder, fix-it man and visionary, died of appendicitis at age 73. The following months saw a string of venerable artists and performers whose work was featured in the museum succumb to the coronavirus. And then, a year after Mr. Francis’ death, winds from Hurricane Ida uprooted three immense pecan trees that crushed the back roof of the museum’s rented home, the former Blandin Funeral Home in the city’s Tremé neighborhood.