As many of you know, New Orleans brass bands hold a special place in my heart – after all, if you don’t feel genuinely happy when you hear a great brass band, you must have […]
Tag: New Orleans jazz
Since the 2012 release of their debut effort, Urn, the New Orleans-based Mike Dillon Band have had a relentless touring schedule, essentially living out of a van; however, the band has won over quite a number […]
http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=255287618&mediaId=255289331 During the holiday season NPR Music invited the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band to perform as part of their Tiny Desk Concert Series, and although the holidays have passed, the performance is so much […]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Brooklyn Bowl 12/22/13
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Brooklyn Bowl December 22, 2013 Sunday night, I caught the legendary jazz institution, Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Brooklyn Bowl. Lead by Ben Jaffe, son of the band’s original founder and […]
The Atlanta, GA-based band, Blair Crimmins and the Hookers have dedicated their musical careers to revive and bring Ragtime and 1920s Dixieland jazz to new audiences – especially those audiences who may have been unfamiliar […]
Despite the waning attention it receives from most of the blogosphere, and contrary to popular belief, jazz is very much a living, vital genre whose artists naturally pay homage to it’s past and legendary artists while […]
Blair Crimmins of Blair Crimmins and the Hookers, began this portion of his music career with a determination to bring both Ragtime and 1920s Dixieland jazz to new audiences – presumably to an indie rock […]
http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=n38632 The Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s latest album, That’s It! marks a new development for the legendary New Orleans jazz institution’s history – it’s the first time that the band is playing original compositions. Although the material […]
My Gift to You is Davell Crawford’s first full-length release in well over a decade. Released through the renowned Basin Street Records, the album is Crawford’s love letter to his birthplace and hometown, and it features […]
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of it’s founding and with that occasion, the current members were left to consider the sort of soul-searching questions that every institution should ask themselves. […]
