American Legacies: Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Del McCoury Band
Recorded in 1964:
Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band (2CD)
Released in 2009:
New Orleans Preservation, Vol. 1 - Buy It HERE!
PHJB on NPR!
PRESERVATION Preview on All Songs Considered!
PHJB on WNYC!
Welcome to Made In New Orleans!
Hello everyone and welcome to the Preservation Hall Made in New Orleans Blog! We put this up with the intentions of creating a dialogue with you about New Orleans Music & Culture and latest happenings of Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Each week, we will post on a variety of topics; everything from what’s been happening here at the Hall, features on Preservation Hall musicians of the past/present, responses to your questions/comments, and personal accounts of life in our fair city of New Orleans. We’d like for you to contribute your stories and memoirs as well. Tell us about that time you stumbled off Bourbon Street and into the Hall and saw Billie & Dede Pierce in 1963. Or maybe that time when the Preservation Hall Band played in your hometown. Tell us your New Orleans story. We welcome it.
Have a lovely day. We look forward to hearing from you.
NOMA presents "Ralston Crawford and Jazz,"
an exhibition that considers the relationships between music,
photography, painting, drawing and film as they intersect in Crawford’s
work in New Orleans. Organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries, in Saint
Louis, MO, the exhibition includes over 150 photographs, prints,
paintings, drawings and films, many never before published.
WHERE Y'ART?!: OPENING CELEBRATION: RALSTON CRAWFORD AND JAZZ WITH DR. MICHAEL WHITE
Friday, June 22nd, 5pm to 9pm
THE RALSTON CRAWFORD AND JAZZ EXHIBIT will be open until October 14th.
As the 34th annual Playboy Jazz Festival wrapped up on Sunday, Bill Cosby danced across the stage to play his final solo beneath the iconic bunny.
“It’s my last time here,” he announced to the applauding crowd, which
filled the Hollywood Bowl to the last bleacher. “And I’m gonna give you
something you’ve never heard before. Take it back to the bridge!”
Cosby grabbed a trombone from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, who followed his order with upbeat, New Orleans-style jazz.
The comedian tapped his foot, held the instrument to his mouth, threw his head back — and abruptly pulled it into two pieces.
Ben Jaffe will be stepping down from his bandstand tuba position to stick around New Orleans in anticipation of his first child, due this summer. Jaffe will continue to be part of the team, continuing his role as Creative Director of Preservation Hall.
Raised by a musical family in New Orleans, Johnson
started playing trumpet and piano around the age of 6. Four years later, Johnson increased his
musicianship and taught himself how to play the trombone, tuba, organ,
saxophone, drums, and more. He
began performing professionally at the age of 12. To deepen his musical education, he attended New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)
and majored in music at Southern University at New Orleans. Johnson became Jaffe's protege,
studying under him at NOCCA.
The Johnson
family are no strangers to Preservation Hall Jazz Band, as his great uncle is
Joseph “Kid Twat” Butler who played string bass with the legendary Kid Thomas
Valentine and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He is additionally a member of his family's brass band
Coolbone (comprised of his 3 brothers, 2 uncles, and 4 cousins) and has toured
with David Byrne, Ben Harper, Spearhead, Busta Rhymes, Counting Crows, De La
Soul and other.
Life can be measured by the things on your
"bucket list" and the things you never knew were on there in the first
place. They include those truly memorable nights in your life that when
someone asks about them, or when something reminds you, you can't help
but pause for a moment and smile.
One of those nights happened
for me in New Orleans a year ago with my sisters. After a great meal on a
balmy night, we sat down and heard some live jazz. It was real, New
Orleans jazz — in the heart of the French Quarter.
The music, beats and
improvisation were so infectious that the slapping of my hands on the
tops of my thighs would later turn to bruises. I slapped with such gusto
that I couldn't help myself.
I tried to be more careful Sunday night at Red Butte Garden as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band took the stage, but it was hard.
The large band, clad in attire
that could pass for costumes from the movie "Men In Black," delicately
wailed — if that's possible — from one classic to the next.
Kicking it off with "They Come
to Play" and "On the Bayou," the band, featuring guitar, mandolin,
banjo, fiddle, clarinet, piano and plenty of brass, talked little and
played a lot and seemed to have a fantastic time doing so.
In a joint effort, much like
the CD released in 2011, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band played with the
Del McCoury band, creating a night of vintage New Orleans jazz, with a
little bit of classic bluegrass sprinkled in...
Check out July's issue of Downbeat. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has a lovely feature, including interviews with Ben Jaffe, Clint Maedgen, and Charlie Gabriel.
The Pres Hall family is introducing a new giveaway series titled, TUBA TUESDAY GIVEAWAY! We will be giving away Rare and Unique Hall Memorabilia every Tuesday. The giveaways include:
This is what New Orleans music is all about – sacred, profane, jubilant,
solemn, loose, funky and fun. Drawing talent from the full cast of
players featured in Preservation Hall’s nightly performances, this CD
faithfully recreates the verve an energy for which the venue has become
so well known.
Featuring an expanded lineup of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Shake
That Thing is a joyous celebration of over 40 years of New Orleans jazz
tradition. Adding such New Orleans jazz luminaries as trumpeter Leroy
Jones, clarinetist Dr. Michael White, and drummer Shannon Powell, the
band powers through several standards and traditional tunes that easily
rate as some of the most raucous, funky, and happy tracks to come out of
Preservation Hall. From Don Vappie's patois vocals on "Eh la Bas" to
the gospel-meets-street beat of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," most of the
various New Orleans musical styles are covered here. This is relevant,
rootsy jazz that deserves to be heard well beyond the confines of the
institution it sprang from.
Preservation Hall Sound Engineer, Earl Scioneaux III, will be recording a Daft Punk tribute album this Summer. Scioneaux's unique twist lies in the translation between his Daft Punk arrangements and the brass band musicians performing the music. Scioneaux is funding his project through donations generated by his BRASSFT PUNK KICKSTARTER account. Donations will end on 6/15 at 6:00PM.
"Daft Punk seemed an obvious choice - their music is great, it's
accessible and widely known, and it's super danceable. What better way
to reformat their tunes than the irresistible funky goodness of a New
Orleans brass band?"
"I plan to arrange Daft Punk's 4 biggest hits
for brass band. I've already written the arrangement for Harder,
Better, Faster, Stronger. The other 3 tunes I'll be doing are: One More
Time, Around the World, and Da Funk."-Earl Scioneaux III
The World Cafe will be re-broadcasting this session on
Monday, June 11, 2012 in coordination with the new week-long New
Orleans edition of our "Sense of Place" series. Select affiliates will
air the show additionally on Saturday, June 9, 2012.
National Public Radio’s World Cafe with host
David Dye can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide. Fans can find their local station and broadcast time at the following link:
Highly Anticipated Return To Stern Grove Festival (SF, CA) in conjunction with
their 50th Anniversary Celebration
Band to
Perform Sunday, July 1st at 2pm
Once a Stern
Grove staple, this year will mark the band's first return to the festival in
the past 5 years. Billie and De
De Pierce's Preservation Hall Band were the first Preservation Hall Band to
play there in 1969, where it became an annual tradition until 1999. In 2007, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
performed again at Stern Grove, led by trumpeter John Brunious (uncle to
current Preservation Hall Jazz Band trumpeter Mark Braud).
Stern Grove
Festival will be celebrating their 75th Season of Concerts this year
as well. In celebration of their
anniversary, Preservation Hall Jazz Band have been commissioned to compose and
perform a piece of music. The song
will reference the festival's tradition of “the waving of the pink section,” in
which audience members wave the SF Chronicle's Sunday Datebook in the air. The tradition began with the band's
former trombone player, Jim Robinson and his legendary waving of his white
handkerchief.
