#Preservation Hall Jazz Band

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All Together Now: 25 Years of Photographing American Music by David McClister

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I Found Out I Have the Same Taste in Music as THE GHOUL and Now I Can't Breathe

I found this article discussing music with Walton Goggins. Pres Hall Jazz Band and Tinariwen are two of my favorite bands EVER, and now I'm suddenly full-tilt delulu thinking I could pull him with a really killer mix tape.

Time to lean into the brain rot and make a fantasy Spotify playlist I guess.

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Rattlin' Bones

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Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing - YouTube

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Album Review: Blind Boys of Alabama - Live in New Orleans

Released in audio and video formats in 2009 and subsequently taken out of print, Blind Boys of Alabama’s Live in New Orleans has been reissued for streaming.

The sonic equivalent of a paperback book, this re-release is most welcome as the LP captures the vocal group at a 21st-century peak on the vaunted Tipitina’s stage alongside friends Susan Tedeschi, Marva Wright, Dr. John, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Henry Butler.

The recording is a perfect balance between what’s happening on stage and how it’s received in the audience. So when a guitar solo slices into the Blind Boys’ “House of the Rising Sun” arrangement of “Amazing Grace” or Tedeschi shreds her vocal cords on “People Get Ready,” the rapturous concertgoers are part of the electrifying mix.

Featuring gospel songs by secular artists (Tom Waits’ “Down in the Hole,” Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”), pure New Orleanian strut (PHJB’s “Bourbon Street Parade”) and all-hands-on-deck worship (“I’ll Fly Away”), Live in New Orleans can make believers of agnostics and entertain the atheists while sating the faithful. For while secularism pervades life in New Orleans, soft-sell Christianity is Live in New Orleans’ and the Blind Boys’ calling card.

Paise what- or whomever you like - the second coming of this LP is reason for joy.

Grade card: Blind Boys of Alabama - Live in New Orleans - A

3/5/24

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Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band

source: Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, American, founded 1963

Alcide Pavageau, 1888 - 1969

Jim Robinson, 1892 - 1976

Emanuel Sayles, 1907 - 1986

Willie Humphrey Sr., 1900 - 1994

Josiah Frazier, 1904 - 1985

Percy Humphrey, 1905 - 1995

Emma Barrett, 1897 - 1983

A black-and-white photograph of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans, standing in front of Preservation Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana. The photograph depicts six men in suits standing behind bass drum, with the words [PRESERVATION HALL / JAZZ / BAND / of / New Orleans, La.] printed on the drumhead. The men are standing in a line and each is holding one instrument. From left to right is Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau holding a double bass, "Big" Jim Robinson holding a trombone, Emanuel Sayles holding a banjo, Willie Humphrey holding a clarinet, Josiah "Cie" Frazier holding drumsticks, and Percy Humphrey holding a trumpet. "Sweet" Emma Barrett, piano player and leader of the band, is seated to the right of the wearing a skirt set, printed blouse, hat and jingles attached to her calves. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the image.

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The Revivalists with Preservation Hall Jazz Band performing “Celebration” live at Red Rocks 2022. ______________________ Celebration Songwriters: David William Shaw, Ed Williams, Michael Girardot, Zachary Feinberg, Robert Ingraham, Paulet Howard, Andrew Stephen Campanelli and George M. Gekas 

Oh, they got married in a hurricane One vow to the other, now she's changing names Two bottles of wine bought from St. James Yeah, I know that girl With the wandering eyes, she don't feel the same

All those pretty girls Around the world are sayin' I know the score That's just not the game I'm playin'

Say all those pretty girls Around the world can see The tides are turnin' And it's not just make-believe

Do it now (Now) Ooh baby (Ooh baby) Come on and celebrate Let's go and celebrate Now (Now) Ooh baby (Ooh baby) Come on and celebrate

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Everybody's talking Just talkin' talkin' talkin' shit Shoulda listened to your mother Gotta take care of your business Should've seen the signs, you know Coldcocked on the dance floor Now your only visit's conjugal But out here on the West Coast

All those pretty girls Who fall in love are sayin' I know the score That's just not the game I'm playin'

Say all those pretty girls Around the world can see The tides are turnin' And it's not just you and me

Do it now (Now) Ooh baby (Ooh baby) Come on and celebrate Let's go and celebrate Now (Now) Ooh baby (Ooh baby) Come on and celebrate

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So do it now (Now) Ooh baby (Ooh baby) Come on and celebrate Let's go and celebrate Now (Now) Ooh baby (Ooh baby) Come on and celebrate

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This is a very uplifting documentary about the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans and a trip they took to perform and share music in Cuba. Of course it has lots of good music, but also a look at Cuban culture which we don't often see in the US. That there are shared traditions is not a huge surprise, but how deep and moving they can be is.

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The Preservation Hall Jam Band

A failed sousaphone player attempts to start New Orleans' best jarred jelly company.

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This is not copyright protected.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff has released a new version of "LIFE ON EARTH”—the title track to their latest album and New York Times’ Lindsay Zoladz’s Song of the Year—featuring friends and fellow New Orleans musicians the Preservation Hall Jazz Band recorded live in Esplanade Studios.

The album has made many year's best lists, including those of NPR, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Uncut, and Brooklyn Vegan. Hurray for the Riff Raff will tour North America with First Aid Kit in May.

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1971 - Newport Jazz Festival - Belgrade

Duke Ellington Orchestra

Miles Davis Quintet

Giants of Jazz with Dizzy Gillespie

Ornette Coleman Quartet

Preservation Hall Band

Gary Burton

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EP Review: Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Holiday

Bookended with two traditional numbers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Holiday gets goofy in the middle.

Featuring Boyfriend and Big Freedia, respectively, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Make it Jingle” add some silliness to the proceedings. Freedia’s number is bawdy, where Boyfriend simply excoriates the world’s Scrooges for refusing to be happy during a time when joy is essentially compulsory.

P.J. Morton leads the band through a relatively traditional reading of “Winter Wonderland” to open it up. PHJB saves the best for last with their raucous rendition of “Jingle Bells,” which seemed to parade through the streets of New Orleans, calling on the denizens to shake it for Santa.

Holiday is a recording best served when the egg-nog bowl is precariously low and the lighter-weight partygoers are out puking in the yard.

Grade card: Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Holiday - C+

12/12/22

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Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher 1931

"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz-scat song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies and was the biggest chart-topper of that year. "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics. In performances, Calloway would have the audience and the band members participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of call and response, eventually making it too fast and complicated for the audience to replicate. The song is based lyrically on Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon's 1927 version of the early 1900s vaudeville song "Willie the Weeper".

"Minnie the Moocher" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2019 was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.

In 1978, Calloway recorded a disco version of "Minnie the Moocher" on RCA Records which reached number 91 on the Billboard R&B chart. "Minnie the Moocher" has been covered or simply referenced by many other performers. Its refrain, particularly the call and response, is part of the language of American jazz. At the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, which is named for the singer, students perform "Minnie the Moocher" as a traditional part of talent showcases.

In 1932, Calloway recorded the song for a Fleischer Studios Talkartoon short cartoon, also called Minnie the Moocher, starring Betty Boop and Bimbo, and released on March 11, 1932. Calloway and his band provide most of the short's score and themselves appear in a live-action introduction, playing "Prohibition Blues". The thirty-second live-action segment is the earliest-known film footage of Calloway. In the cartoon, Betty decides to run away from her parents, and Bimbo comes with her. While walking away from home, Betty and Bimbo wind up in a spooky area and hide in a hollow tree. A spectral walrus—whose gyrations were rotoscoped from footage of Calloway dancing—appears to them, and begins to sing "Minnie the Moocher", with many fellow ghosts following along, during which they do scary things like place ghosts on electric chairs who still survive after the shock. After singing the whole number, the ghosts chase Betty and Bimbo all the way back to Betty's home. In 1933 another Betty Boop/Cab Calloway cartoon with "Minnie the Moocher" was The Old Man of the Mountain.

Calloway performed the entire song in the movie Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955), filmed at the Apollo Theater. Much later, in 1980 at age 73, Calloway performed the song in the movie The Blues Brothers. Calloway's character Curtis, a church janitor and the Blues Brothers' mentor, magically transforms the band into a 1930s swing band and sings "Minnie the Moocher" when the crowd becomes impatient at the beginning of the movie's climactic production number.

"Minnie the Moocher" received a total of 71,1% yes votes!