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As of today, the latest CD from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is available nationally, wherever great music is sold! Check your local retailer! Ask for it by name! It's a wonderful recording folks, and if you haven't heard it yet, we're hoping you get the chance real soon.
And in celebration of this momentous occasion, Preservation Hall is announcing their first ever online contest! Here's the deal: Be one of the first three fans to answer the following quiz questions correctly, email your answers to preservationhall@gmail.com, and win your very own New Orleans Preservation, Vol. 1 Boxed Collectors Edition!
The box is modeled after the Angelo Brocato's pastry box, a much-loved institution here in New Orleans, and contains a veritable treasure trove of goodies pulled from the 50-year archives of Preservation Hall. Contents include the new CD, a cassette tape, a promotional VHS, an 8x10 black and white glossy promotional picture, and a ton of other cool stuff. Maybe the coolest? The "All-Access" laminated pass that gains you free entrance to performances at Preservation Hall on any of our normal nights of operation! Normally sold for $75 dollars, all you have to do is be one of the first three fans to send the correct answers to the following quiz to PreservationHall@gmail.com.
THE QUIZ!
1.) Preservation Hall will be celebrating its fiftieth anniversary soon! In what year did Allan And Sandra Jaffe first open the building at 726 St. Peter street under this name?
2.) Before it housed Preservation Hall, the building at 726 St. Peter Street in New Orleans' French Quarter housed an art gallery where legendary jazz musicians held informal jam sessions on a donations-only basis. The name of the gallery was "Associated Artists." Who was the owner?
3.) Who is the oldest current member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band?
4.) Youngest member and leader of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Mark Braud is the nephew to two former trumpet playing-leaders of this legendary group. Name them both!
5.) What is the name of the character in "King Creole" who's apartment in the movie was upstairs in the courtyard of Preservation Hall?
Please email your answers to PreservationHall@gmail.com. And thanks for playing!
That's right, ladies and gentlemen...
The box is modeled after the Angelo Brocato's pastry box, a much-loved institution here in New Orleans, and contains a veritable treasure trove of goodies pulled from the 50-year archives of Preservation Hall. Contents include the new CD, a cassette tape, a promotional VHS, an 8x10 black and white glossy promotional picture, and a ton of other cool stuff. Maybe the coolest? The "All-Access" laminated pass that gains you free entrance to performances at Preservation Hall on any of our normal nights of operation! Normally sold for $75 dollars, all you have to do is be one of the first three fans to send the correct answers to the following quiz to PreservationHall@gmail.com.
"Even on a sultry, drizzling June night in New Orleans, Preservation Hall packs them in. Fortunately, the tourists who come searching for the traditional jazz that was born in this city are served up the real music that locals might take for granted. What makes it different from some tourist destinations is that the history of jazz lives within its chipped cement walls as well as in the musicians that play within its environs. Those of us who live in New Orleans know these guys such as bassist Walter Payton, who taught many a youngster who attended McDonogh 15 in the Quarter and have gone on to enjoy professional careers themselves. Musicians who have jazz running through their veins-like trumpeter Mark Braud of the legendary Brunious family and Joe Lastie whose Ninth Ward clan helped to create and carry on New Orleans music-remain regulars here.
"...The Preservation Hall Jazz Band's latest CD, New Orleans Preservation - Volume 1 presents a similar ambiance as it was recorded live at the St. Peter Street club. It too, offers traditional jazz's many different styles and moods and importantly it includes a wealth of less-mined material.
"...The first cut of this grand record, “Short Dressed Gal,” has reedman Maedgen singing the story of a country woman who has to get across a river, rents a horse for $5 and, because of her short dress, sets off a riverbank scandal as the farming folk stand around trying to get a peek at her drawers. How tame the standards of salacious material when compared to hardcore rap or Chaucer’s chapter on the “Wife of Bath.” The song was also popular in Cajun country far back in the mists of time (Alida Viator, gone to Austin since Hurricane Katrina, did a stellar version on Songs from the Canary Islands). Freddie Lonzo’s joco-swinging trombone lines serve as a solid foil to Maedgen’s vocals.