Ever since i discovered the joys of New Orleans music via Aaron Neville,Irma Thomas,Allen Toussaint,Ernie K Doe etc on the soul front i started to dig into the history of N.O. music and what made it tick. The area is like no other in the USA, its culture goes way,way back to the birth of the Blues and Jazz, with its links to Africa as strong than any other Black American community in the states. When Pmac turned me onto the superb TV series "TREME" where you can stream or download HERE.It explains the modern day lifestles of the inhabitants than i ever could. A superbly executed series with a mix of actors and musicians who come and go in the various storylines. Rather than me try to explain about the whole mash up in N.O. there are 2 great sites that answers the discerning listeners questions HERE AGAIN and about the BLACK INDIANS Brass Bands have been a part of New Orleans for a very long time,and still exert a lot of influence on the output of music from that great city today. According to Discogs this band have recorded 19 albums + This one since 1984 yet the band have been around since 1977, So perhaps Pmac a native of that great city can enlighten us ?. On this 10th studio album the guys are joined by the legend that is Dr John (Mac Rebennack), Norah Jones, Olu Dara, & Robert Randolph. Here,s info on the BAND. I for one love the musical mash up they provide. I,m sorry its taken me years to appreciate all the musical styles in New Orleans, Unique is an understatement!
AMM
The Tasters!
17 comments:
Looks really fantastic many thanks amm!
Still around, but they haven't released a new record in over 10 years. This is a very good album, but for what I consider to be their best recording that featured various musical guests, try their album entitled, "The New Orleans Album" (features, Dr. John, Eddie Bo, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others). Their best overall recording has to be Live At Montreux, which manages to capture the heat of their live performances.
Thanks for spreading the gospel of the Dozen, AMM!
The baritone sax player, Roger Lewis, has been with the band from the beginning and still plays with them. Roger also appeared on numerous Fats Domino singles.
They were the first "brass band" that managed to incorporate modern sounds into their music. They fathered numerous other modern brass bands, including The New Orleans Nightcrawlers (a recent Grammy winner), The Hot 8 Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band (also a past Grammy winner) and numerous others. 1977 is probably the year they did start, but they really took off in the early -mid 80s. They used to regularly perform at a club called The Glass House, but its sadly long closed.
Thanks AMM for the Dirty Dozen and the links explaining all things New Orleans.
And yes the New Orleans style is like no other. The great Allen Toussaint contributed a lot to this. With a host of artists like Robert Parker, Lee Dorsey and The Neville Brothers among others. From a very young age I always liked it. It's good to discover others who continue the tradition.
Yves
Thank you AMM for letting us learn about the great stuff that comes from New Orleans. I appreciate the information and wish more persons knew all this. Thanks AMM>
Great Review Thank you AMM
Thank you, AMM. Yes please!
many thanks for this i hadnt listened before
Thanks for this great review
This is a great one - and we learned much about New Orleans. Thanks for review, P.
Thanks AMM for the into to the Dirty Dozen Band
Terrific set with top musicians didn't realise that Robert Randolph played in this band certainly different from is own band Thanks AMM and pmac for some great background info
Cheers Pedro
This album looks very interersting, am looking forward to taking a listen
many thanks
Reb
Thanks AMM, It reminds me of the TREME movie. Nice review!!
A very nice record that I don't have, and of course I'm counting on you Collins. Thank you for sharing .
Pierre
Sounds good this review thanks
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