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New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance

HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
edited April 2008 in Strut Central
I'd just like to report that this book is EXCELLENT.Great historical research and interviews with members of Dejan's, Dirty Dozen, and Rebirth Brass Bands.

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  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    Thanks for the tip--that looks good.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
  • pcmrpcmr 5,591 Posts
    Thanks for the tip--that looks good.

    ditto
  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts
    same here, thanks
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Publisher's synopsis:

    ???Brass band musicians are a wild bunch???they're hard to control. The street funk that the Rebirth [Brass Band] plays definitely isn't traditional???it might be in thirty years time.??????Lajoie ???Butch??? Gomez, Regal Brass Band
    Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow.

    Uniformed brass bands have been around since the late nineteenth century throughout Europe and the United States, but African American brass bands in New Orleans have always played music differently: the way it is lived on the street. Performing in funeral processions and in parades for social clubs, they learned how to play by interacting with their audiences. This spontaneity and feeling became trademarks of jazz.

    Brass bands waned during the civil rights era but revived around 1970 and then flourished in the 1980s, when the music became cool with the younger generation. In the only book to cover this revival, Burns interviews members from a variety of bands, including the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band, the Dirty Dozen, Tuba Fats' Chosen Few, and the Rebirth Brass Band. He captures their thoughts about the music, their careers, audiences, influences from rap and hip-hop, the resurgence of New Orleans social and pleasure clubs and second lines, traditional versus funk style, recording deals, and touring.

    ???My dream is I would love to win a Grammy with a brass band,??? confides Philip Frazier III of the Rebirth Brass Band. ???But if I had to do it again for no money, I would, because I love doing it.??? For anyone who loves jazz and the city where it was born, Keeping the Beat on the Street is a book to savor.

  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts
    No threadjacking...

    I bought this comp called Ain't NO Funk Like NO Funk in 1998 when it came out and I keep listening to it sometimes, great stuff specially All That and New Orleans Nightcrawlers if I remember correctly.
    Can someone recommend someting in the same vein?
    Thanks in advance.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    No threadjacking...

    I bought this comp called Ain't NO Funk Like NO Funk in 1998 when it came out and I keep listening to it sometimes, great stuff specially All That and New Orleans Nightcrawlers if I remember correctly.
    Can someone recommend someting in the same vein?
    Thanks in advance.

    Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk is decent.
  • BaptBapt 2,503 Posts
    No threadjacking...

    I bought this comp called Ain't NO Funk Like NO Funk in 1998 when it came out and I keep listening to it sometimes, great stuff specially All That and New Orleans Nightcrawlers if I remember correctly.
    Can someone recommend someting in the same vein?
    Thanks in advance.

    Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk is decent.

    Oh yeah, I've heard of them.
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