Jazz, brass, marching bands roll this week

2nd September 2014   ·   0 Comments

By Geraldine Wyckoff
Contributing Writer

meggan tile payday loans Fall is in the air. No, not temperature-wise but music-wise. On Thursday, September 4, 2014, the much-anticipated 6th edition of the popular series Jazz in the Park begins. Set in beautiful Armstrong Park, the free, outdoor festival, which was created to bring more people to the locale, has gained great popularity for its down-home, neighborhood feel. That’s due, in part, not only to the wonderful setting but also the quality of artists that perform. This is the real deal.

This week’s headliners include drummer Shannon Powell leading his band that will include pianist Kyle Roussell who, beyond his work with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, seems to be turning up on stages all over town. On bass will be David Barard who remains best known for his long tenure with pianist/vocalist Dr. can you transfer a personal loan to another person John. Powell, a master of many styles promises a set that will include “all kinds of New Orleans music – traditional, jazz, funk and rhythm and blues.” It can’t get more neighborhood than Powell, who reigns as the “King of Treme.” All he has to do to get to this gig that starts at 5 pm is walk from his home just across the street from the park.

Closing the show at 6:30 p.m. is the mighty To Be Continued Brass Band – better known simply as TBC. You don’t need to read the name on a t-shirt to recognize TBC, which was formed in 2002, as the band’s big, trombone-heavy sound is its calling card.

The festivities at Armstrong Park begin each Thursday personal loan to buy engagement ring at 4 p.m. with a second line featuring the 21st Century Brass Band and the Sudan Social & Pleasure Club. The action moves to the stage next to the Municipal Auditorium for the first act that hits at 5 p.m. Every week, a different high school marching band plays during a 15-minute intermission of sorts before the main act comes on at 6:30 p.m. This Thursday the west bank’s Landry Walker Marching Band will strut its stuff.

Thursday’s Jazz in the Park line-up is strong but then so is the schedule for the rest of the series that ends on October 30, 2014. The headliners include trumpeter Shamarr Allen, drummer Russell Batiste, percussionist and vocalist Cyril Neville, pianist/vocalist Jon Cleary and the rhythmic Los Hombres Calientes with percussionist Bill Summers. The big finale 15 min payday loans direct lender of the series comes with trumpeter Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers warming things up for the Grammy award-winning Rebirth Brass Band. Who knows, maybe Ruffins will blow a few notes with his former bandmates and old pals.

Jane Harvey Brown –
Trad Jazz Stars
Live from New Orleans at the Old U.S. Mint
(Independent)

Jane Harvey Brown takes on classic jazz standards with sophistication and sass. The Massa­chu­setts native and 20-year New Orleans resident demonstrates her vocal talents and range on well-known tunes like the opener, “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home” and “None of payday advance rancho cordova ca My Jelly Roll.” While Brown, who boasts formal vocal training, is animated in her delivery of these chestnuts, she takes the music seriously thus avoiding the pitfall of over-emoting. That attitude is underscored by her solid band of veteran musicians including 87-year-old pianist Lawrence Cotton, guitarist Joe Cushenberry, bassist Darrel “Sugar Bear” Francis and Brown’s husband, drummer Kerry Brown. These guys will also be appearing with Brown at her record release party on Saturday, September 6, at the Old U.S. Mint the same locale where the album was recorded.

Brown wisely gives these guys plenty of room to stretch out. The first notes of the CD come from Cotton’s thoughtful piano. He knows a thing or two about accompanying a front person having spent his early years working with the legendary payday loans everett mall way everett wa Guitar Slim. Cotton also takes the spotlight as a soloist on the opening track that moves with a gentle swing. The pianist’s traditional jazz creds are also in evidence. He played alongside such giants as trumpeters Teddy Riley and Wallace Davenport as well as the dynamite team of guitarist Danny Barker and his wife, vocalist Blue Lu Barker.

On “Basin Street Blues,” Brown shows her ability and agility to sing the lyrics in French and, naturally, she uses that talent again on the French love song “La Vie en Rose.” Cushenberry is forever tasty whether he’s strumming behind the vocalist or taking it on his own. All of these musicians remain extremely simpatico in the way they work as an ensemble . That’s, of course, made easier when you have a rhythm section that cash advance San Diego CA Valencia Park includes the likes of Francis and Kerry Brown. Brown, a 15-year veteran of guitar master Gatemouth Brown’s band, once said he “learned how to swing with Gate.” He’s no stranger to traditional jazz having played drums behind the likes of renowned New Orleans trumpeters Riley and Thomas Jefferson.

It’s appreciated that Brown resurrects the great Blue Lu Barker’s salty “Bring the Greenbacks When You Call.” Again, Cotton hits his piano solo here with appropriate vigor. The final track, “Whenever You’re Lonesome,” offers a pleasant change of pace with the band swaying the rhythm.

Live from New Orleans at the Old U.S. Mint is a pleasant journey to times past. These traveling companions make it well worth the trip.

This article originally published in the September 1, 2014 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.