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.
New Orleans Residents Get Free Admission for the 3rd Show, Wednesdays and Saturdays
Now through August 31st, Preservation Hall is proud to
announce that New Orleans Residents have free admission to the third
show on Wednesdaysd Saturdays. To take advantage of our summer special,
bring your local ID or Entergy bill down to Preservation Hall, located
at 726 St. Peter Street, in the Heart of the Quarter. Can’t make it in
on a Wednesday or Saturday? We are still offering New Orleans Residents
2-for-1 admission, now through August 31st. It's the perfect opportunity to be a tourist in your own hometown.
Our dear friend and bass drummer for the Treme Brass Band, Uncle Lionel Batiste, has passed away this past weekend. The Preservation Hall family misses Uncle Lionel and we send our condolences to his family and fellow Treme Brass Band members.
By Keith Spera of The Times-Picayune
"Uncle" Lionel Batiste, the Treme Brass Band’s longtime bass drummer
and a beloved, dapper character who reveled in charming women of all
ages on the dance floor, died early Sunday at Ochsner Baptist Medical
Center after a brief battle with cancer. He was 80.
Mr. Batiste was an iconic figure in the brass band community and the
larger world of New Orleans music. With his omnipresent sunglasses, a
wristwatch worn across his hand, and his kazoo, he literally moved to
the beat of his own drum.
In the traditional brass band cap, white shirt and black tie, Mr.
Batiste appeared in numerous commercials and TV shows, including HBO's
"Treme." He was also featured on the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Festival presented by Shell's souvenir Congo Square poster by artist
Terrance Osborne.
Many local musicians cite him as a role model. Trumpeter Kermit
Ruffins has referred to Mr. Batiste as “my total influence,” who
taught Ruffins “how to act, how to dress and how to feel about life."
“Inside Uncle Lionel’s bass drum," said fellow drummer Herman LeBeaux, "is the pulse of the city."
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.
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.
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.
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:
February 16, 2010 - PRESERVATION: an album benefiting Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program hits the streets! (Best Mardi Gras Ever?) While we wait with baited breath, we share with you these previews of the 19 amazing tracks and special guests that make this latest offering from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band so very special. In this installment...
Working with Coldplay and Badly Drawn Boy producer Ken Nelson, Nutini generated an impressive amount of buzz before his first single, "Last Request," was released in the early summer of 2006. He appeared at special Atlantic Records showcases at Carnegie Hall and the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as showcase sets opening for the Rolling Stones and Paul Weller. Nutini's debut album, These Streets, was ultimately released in July 2006 alongside his second single, "Jenny Don't Be Hasty." The album fared quite well in the U.K., where it climbed to double-platinum status and sent four singles into the Top 40. Accordingly, an American release followed in January 2007.
For Paolo Nutini's second album, the songwriter took a more active role in the production, partnering with Ethan Johns but helming much of the material himself. The resulting record, Sunny Side Up, appeared in June 2009, featuring increased contributions from Nutini's backing band and a bright, sprightly disposition.
PHOTOS OF PAOLO NUTINI @ PRESERVATION HALL BY MARY ASHLEY JOHNSON
THE SONG: "Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea" Paolo Nutini with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler) S.A. Music, Bughouse Music
Paolo Nutini - vocals Mark Braud - trumpet Charlie Gabriel - clarinet Lucien Barbarin - trombone Carl LeBlanc - banjo Rickie Monie - piano Ben Jaffe - tuba Walter Payton - string bass Lil' Joe Lastie - drums Paolo Nutini appears courtesy of Atlantic Records
February 16, 2010 - PRESERVATION: an album benefitting Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program hits the streets! (Best Mardi Gras Ever?) While we wait with baited breath, we share with you these previews of the 19 amazing tracks and special guests that make this latest offering from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band so very special. In this installment...
While Amy LaVere's voice may have the high, breathy tone of a young girl, she brings to her music the emotional peaks and valleys of a grown woman who has certainly seen her share of the world, and it's hard not to believe that her adventurous life has informed her work. LaVere was born in a small town near the border of Texas and Louisiana to parents who were part-time musicians. Her family's nomadic life led LaVere to live in 13 different places before she finished high school, and when her folks finally settled in Detroit, she rejected the classic country sounds they doted on -- Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson were their favorites -- in favor of punk rock. LaVere played drums and sang in a Motor City punk band called Last Minute, but after graduating she grew restless and headed back to Louisiana, which turned out to be a brief stop on the way to a job in Nashville, working for a music management company. After settling in Nashville, LaVere met Gabe Kudela, who played with the barnstorming country-punk band the Legendary Shack Shakers. After a brief romance, LaVere and Kudela wed, and after she learned to play upright bass, the couple began playing nightclubs on Nashville's Lower Broadway as part of a group they called the Gabe & Amy Show; the band developed a loyal following in Nashville, and spawned another when they pulled up stakes and relocated to Memphis in 1999.
Although LaVere and Kudela's marriage broke up in 2003, LaVere's love of singing was stronger than ever, and she had developed a belated appreciation for classic country, blues, and jazz sounds that influenced her performing style. With the help of friends Paul Buchignani and Jason Freeman, LaVere began performing as a solo act, and after extensive gigging in the South LaVere caught the attention of Memphis-based independent label Archer Records, which released her striking debut album, This World Is Not My Home, in April of 2006. A little over a year later, LaVere's second long-player, Anchors & Anvils (produced by legendary Memphis musician and studio hand Jim Dickinson), arrived in stores. When not busy with her musical career, LaVere also dabbles in acting; she played pioneering rockabilly filly Wanda Jackson in the film Walk the Line, and later appeared in Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan.PHOTOS OF AMY LAVERE @ PRESERVATION HALL BY ERIKA GOLDRING
The Song: "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" Amy LaVere & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Charles Warfield/Clarence Williams) public domain
Amy LaVere - vocals Mark Braud - trumpet Clint Maedgen - clarinet Lucien Barbarin - trombone Carl LeBlanc - banjo Rickie Monie - piano Ben Jaffe - string bass Joe Lastie - drums
James Olliges, Jr., professionally known as Jim James or Yim Yames, is the singer of Louisville, Kentucky-based rock band, My Morning Jacket. James grew up in the Hikes Point neighborhood of Louisville and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1995. As the singer, frontman, producer, and lead songwriter for My Morning Jacket, James has been instrumental in defining the sound of the band, in particular on their critically acclaimed Z, which he co-produced with John Leckie.James cites The Muppet Show as one of his biggest musical influences. James was given an "Esky" for best songwriter in Esquire's 2006 Esky Music Awards in the April issue. James typically plays rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, and occasional lead guitar on My Morning Jacket songs. James recently played the role of the band Leader in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There singing the song "Going to Acapulco", with Calexico as his backing band, which was featured on the soundtrack of the film. Rolling Stone listed James among their "20 New Guitar Gods" along with fellow My Morning Jacket guitarist Carl Broemel. He contributed vocals on The Decemberists 2009 album The Hazards of Love.
On July 7, 2009, James released an EP covering George Harrison songs, entitled Tribute To. A portion of the proceeds from the album will go to benefit the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. The EP is available on yimyames.com as both a digital download and a physical CD/LP.
photos of Jim James @ Preservation Hall by Mary Ashley Johnson
The Song: "Louisiana Fairytale" Yim Yames & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Parish, Gillespie, Coots) WB Music Corp, Larry Spier Music LLC, EMI Mills Music Inc.
Yim Yames - vocals Mark Braud - trumpet Clint Maedgen - clarinet Daniel "Weenie" Farrow - tenor sax Carl LeBlanc - banjo "The Professor" Rickie Monie - piano Walter Payton - string bass Joe Lastie - drums
Soulful Americana songwriter, singer, and producer Buddy Miller began his career in the early '60s as an upright bassist is high-school bluegrass combos. Later, he traveled the back roads of America as an acoustic guitarist, eventually landing in New York City, where his Buddy Miller Band included a young Shawn Colvin on vocals and guitar. He also forged an enduring relationship with country-rock iconoclast Jim Lauderdale. Miller eventually landed in Nashville, where he did session guitar and vocal work on albums by Lauderdale, Victoria Williams, and Heather Myles, among others. He self-produced his criminally overlooked solo debut, Your Love and Other Lies (Hightone, 1995), and followed it with 1997's equally superb Poison Love. By this point Miller was the lead guitarist in Emmylou Harris' band, and Harris returned the favor with backing vocals throughout Poison Love. Released in 1999, Cruel Moon continued Miller's string of home-recorded masterpieces; this time around, Steve Earle dropped by for the sessions. A big part of all Miller's recordings was the songwriting and harmonies of his wife, Julie Miller. The 2001 duet album Buddy & Julie Miller brought her contributions to the front of the mix and delivered them with gritty, soulful country arrangements enhanced by the interplay of his scowl and her lilt, while 2002 saw the release of his fifth album for Hightone, Midnight and Lonesome. It again featured contributions from Julie, Harris, and Lauderdale and mixed honky tonk with heartfelt balladry and the occasional soul cover. In 2004 Miller released the roots gospel album Universal United House of Prayer for New West, followed by Written in Chalk in 2009. In addition to his stellar solo career, Miller held down his gig in Harris' backing band; played guitar with Earle; produced albums by his wife Julie, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and the Vigilantes of Love; and wrote songs for the Dixie Chicks, Lee Ann Womack, Lauderdale, and Hank Williams III.
Richie Havens is gifted with one of the most recognizable voices in popular music. His fiery, poignant, always soulful singing style has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960’s. It’s a voice that has inspired and electrified audiences from the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair in 1969, to the Clinton Presidential Inauguration in 1993 -coming full circle with the 30th Woodstock Anniversary celebration, "A Day In The Garden," in 1999.
For over three decades, Richie has used his music to convey messages of brotherhood and personal freedom. With more than twenty-five albums released and a touring schedule that would kill many a younger man, he continues to view his calling as a higher one. As he told The Denver Post, "I really sing songs that move me. I’m not in show business, I’m in the communications business. That’s what it’s about for me."
Born in Brooklyn, Richard P. Havens was the eldest of nine children. At an early age, he began organizing his neighborhood friends into street corner doo-wop groups, and was performing with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16. At the age of 20, Richie left Brooklyn to seek out the artistic stimulation of Greenwich Village. "I saw the Village as a place to escape to in order to express yourself,” he recalls. "I had first gone there during the beatnik days of the 1950’s to perform poetry, then I drew portraits for 2 years and stayed up all night listening to folk music in the clubs. It took awhile before I thought of picking up a guitar." Nina Simone was a key vocal influence early on, and Fred Neil and Dino Valenti were among the folksingers who had an impact on Richie during this period.
Richie’s reputation as a solo performer soon spread beyond the Village folk circles. He recorded two albums worth of demos for Douglas International in 1965 and ’66, though none of the tracks were released until his first two albums caused a stir. After joining forces with legendary manager Albert Grossman, Richie landed his first record deal with the Verve label, which released Mixed Bag in 1967. This auspicious debut album featured standout tracks like "Handsome Johnny" (co-written by Richie and future Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett , Jr.), "Follow,” and the striking version of Bob Dylan’s "Just Like A Woman" that earned him the reputation of being a premier interpreter of Dylan’s material.
Something Else Again (1968) became Richie’s first album to hit the Billboard chart, and also pulled Mixed Bag onto the charts. That same year, Douglas International added (unapproved) instrumental tracks to his old demos and released two albums, Richie Havens’ Record and Electric Havens. Less than a year later, Richie’s first coproduction, the two-disc Richard P. Havens, 1983 (Verve 1969), gave fans a taste of his exciting live sound.
It was, in fact, as a live performer that Richie first earned widespread notice. By decade’s end, he was in great demand in colleges across the country, as well as on the international folk and pop festival circuit. Richie played the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival, the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, the 1969 Woodstock Festival, the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, and the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970.
Richie’s Woodstock appearance proved to be a major turning point in his career. As the festival’s first performer, he held the crowd spellbound for nearly three hours, called back for encore after encore. Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual "Motherless Child" that became "Freedom,” a song now considered to be the anthem of a generation. The subsequent movie release helped Richie reach a worldwide audience of millions...
THE SONG: "Trouble in Mind" Richie Havens - vocals, guitar Walter Parks - guitar Mark Braud - trumpet Charlie Gabriel - clarinet Clint Maedgen - tenor sax Freddie Lonzo - trombone Carl LeBlanc - banjo Walter Payton - string bass "9th Ward" Joe Lastie - drums
"TROUBLE IN MIND" as performed by SISTER ROSETTA THARPE:
BIOGRAPHY by Heather Phares from AllMusicGuide.com Chicago singer/songwriter/violinist Andrew Bird updates the traditions of small-group swing, German leider, and New Orleans jazz, mixing gypsy, folk, and rock elements into his distinctive style. Bird's projects include his group the Bowl of Fire (which also includes drummer Kevin O'Donnell, bassist Josh Hirsch, and guitarist Colin Bunn) and performing as an auxiliary member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers; in turn, the Zippers' Katharine Whalen and James Mathus appeared on the Bowl of Fire albums Thrills and Oh! the Grandeur. Bird has also recorded with artists like Pinetop Seven and Lil' Ed Williams, teaches music at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and performed on the score and soundtrack from the 1999 Tim Robbins film The Cradle Will Rock. His third album, 2001's The Swimming Hour, surprisingly found the Bowl of Fire turning to pop music, and with excellent results. As bandmembers remained active in their various other projects, the band continued and work on a follow-up began in 2002. To tide fans over, Bird self-released a limited-edition EP, Fingerlings, which documented live performances of some old and new songs by the band and solo. Early 2003 brought the release of another LP, Weather Systems, on the independent Grimsey label. Bird debuted on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe imprint in 2005 with Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs. He switched to Fat Possum for 2007's Armchair Apocrypha and 2009's Noble Beast, both of which were ambitious and eclectic albums even by Bird's standards.
"Shake It And Break It" Andrew Bird - lead vocals, violin, whistling Mark Braud - trumpet Charlie Gabriel - clarinet Clint Maedgen - tenor sax Lucien Barbarin - trombone Carl LeBlanc - banjo Ben Jaffe - tuba Joe Lastie - drums
Next time you're on YouTube, search for 'Preservation Hall'. Just make sure you got some time on your hands, there's a whole lot to watch. Here's one featuring the Kid Thomas Band. For some reason they have Emanuel Paul listed as Charlie Hamilton. Anyhow, enjoy!
